Police Forced Artist to Cover Classical Image of Nude ‘Eve’
Excerpt from the press release:
Dwight Wesley Miller drew the attention of local police after displaying a mural depicting the creation of Eve on an exterior wall of his art gallery in the northern Texas town of Pilot Point. The mural borrows heavily from Michelangelo’s “Creation of Adam” fresco in the Sistine Chapel, and in particular from a portion of the fresco that depicts God reaching out to touch Adam. At the far end of the mural sits a classical female nude, in a pose that is a variation of Adam in the Michelangelo creation scene. God’s finger points at an apple, a traditional image of the forbidden fruit in the Garden of Eden, suspended between God and Eve.
Because Eve’s breasts were bare in the mural, the Pilot Point Police Department repeatedly threatened, in writing, to prosecute Miller under a criminal statute aimed at those who would victimize children by selling or displaying to them hard-core pornography. In order to avoid the expense and embarrassment of being charged with such a sordid crime, Miller covered Eve’s breasts with a “Crime Scene Banner” tape.
Poor suckers!! This poor ultraconservative people, believing on Eve’s pornography, when their own ultracatholicism should tell’em that they we’re watching their own creation. You should note too, that when you’re charged with this kind of “crimes” about kids and pornography, you’re filed as a total criminal for every work… bah…
Blame my english as you wish, but is Bush who’s killing you!! 