A high school student’s art project, has touched off the latest roiling
controversy in Sarah Palin’s hometown.
Why is it controversial? Why, because it looks like a, er “periwinkle”,
according to the link’s lady newscaster.
“Periwinkle”? I guess I need to get out of the house more because that
is one I never heard before. At least the word is uncommon enough to
keep people like from getting slapped slapped in the face for innocent misuse.
So…I guess they won’t be having that Georgia O’Keefe exhibit any time soon, then?*
Maybe they should just throw caution to the wind and show Judy Chicago’s The Dinner Party
*Yes, I know she didn’t intend them to be sexual. But try telling some of her fans that.
The worst part is that the statue is the best looking thing in the entire city.
If they really wanted to capture the feel of Wasilla they should have made a replica of a 1983 strip mall complete with hair salon, used book store, and Chinese restaurant.
I know what it looks like – it’s the activator button for the Oxygen Machine in the TErbinium mines of Mars from Total Recall – only this on’es made for a human hand.
They should get Arnold to come to Wasilla and push it, thereby bringing oxygen to Wasilla.
Oysters might be appropriate. Or clams … any bivalve, really. Periwinkles are more like snails, though.
Why am I thinking of Spartacus all of a sudden?
I just want to say that the tags for this article are hilarious: “Sculpture looks like female genetalia”, “sculpture looks like vagina”, “vagina sculpture high school” (hey! That was my alma mater!).
I’m not a big fan of these websites that think a video replaces the need for pictures in an article. If the video was to replace everything, then it would also replace the text.
Here’s the sculpture in question. Note that this is a side view, select the other photo for the front.
Periwinkle is a pastel blue-violet hue which is supposedly shared by the flower and the snail.
It would be a needlessly cheap shot at Alaskan weather to suggest that they believe that particular body part to be that hue – but I can think it!
And I agree with BigT about unnecessary videos in news stories. It’s a sculpture, people – if it’s moving around, you’ve got much bigger problems than what it might resemble!
