# Art interpretation time!

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/art-interpretation-time/367933>\
**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [August 9, 2006, 12:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/art-interpretation-time/367933 "2006-08-09T00:08:18Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 6\
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**Author:** ![Jayn\_Newell](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/f9ae1b/32.png) [@Jayn\_Newell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jayn_Newell)\
**Post date:** [August 9, 2006, 12:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/art-interpretation-time/367933/1 "2006-08-09T00:08:18Z")

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This has been bugging me for three years now, and while I doubt you guys can answer the mystery, I’m hoping you might at least give some interesting answers.

The mystery is, what in the world is [this](http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v144/Jayn_Newell/DSCF3820.jpg) supposed to be? It’s an inuit statue, I know that much, but what it’s a statue of I have no idea, and the same goes for everyone I know.

I’ll let you guys know what it’s known as around campus later, but for now I’ll leave you guys to come up with your own ideas.

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**Author:** ![pinkfreud](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pinkfreud/32/17603_2.png) [@pinkfreud](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pinkfreud)\
**Post date:** [August 9, 2006, 12:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/art-interpretation-time/367933/2 "2006-08-09T00:21:20Z")

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My first thought: hydrocele.

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**Author:** ![friedo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/8edcca/32.png) [@friedo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/friedo)\
**Post date:** [August 9, 2006, 12:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/art-interpretation-time/367933/3 "2006-08-09T00:55:17Z")

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Severely mutated cock’n’balls?

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**Author:** ![betenoir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/258eb7/32.png) [@betenoir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/betenoir)\
**Post date:** [August 9, 2006, 1:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/art-interpretation-time/367933/4 "2006-08-09T01:13:11Z")

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It looks human to me. A human drinking something. Isn’t that an arm there? A human looking like a cock and balls…I dunno maybe it’s a fertility thing.

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**Author:** ![Jayn\_Newell](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/f9ae1b/32.png) [@Jayn\_Newell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jayn_Newell)\
**Post date:** [August 9, 2006, 3:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/art-interpretation-time/367933/5 "2006-08-09T15:28:20Z")

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> [@friedo](#):
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> Severely mutated cock’n’balls?

That’s what someone else thought to. It’s known around campus as the Penis Statue, which is short for The Six-Foot Tall Exploding Penis. Which of course makes for a really weird image when you see someone on top straddling it.

I was also thinking of the person angle, **betenoir**. It looks to me kinda like someone holding something. But the thing is so abstract it’s hard to tell what it’s supposed to be.

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**Author:** ![FlyingRamenMonster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/ce7236/32.png) [@FlyingRamenMonster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FlyingRamenMonster)\
**Post date:** [August 9, 2006, 3:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/art-interpretation-time/367933/6 "2006-08-09T15:52:38Z")

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Jeez, I thought I had a dirty mind, but until I read everyone’s penis comments all I thought was “Venus figure”.

Do the Inuit have Venus figures?