Landmark For Breastfeeding

[KC//CRIMSON]

Here's a nude sculpture of Angelina Jolie titled "Landmark For Breastfeeding" by New York based artist Daniel Edwards. It's scheduled to be displayed in Norman, Oklahoma which sounds like a great idea. Because there's nothing the Midwest loves more than activist celebrities. And art.

Then again, she is barefoot and breastfeeding.

http://thesuperficial.com//bfm_gallery/2009/08/0805%20Angelina%20Jolie%20Statue/gallery_main/gallery_main-0805_angelina_jolie_statue_01.jpg

NEW YORK, N.Y., Aug. 4 (SEND2PRESS NEWSWIRE) -- For World Breastfeeding Week, Phantom-Financial announces the unveiling of a life-size park bench sculpture of Angelina Jolie nude with her twin babies by New York artist Daniel Edwards just minutes from Brad Pitt's own birthplace in the Oklahoma City Metro area in September before its Fall exhibition in London.

Landmark for Breastfeeding"Landmark for Breastfeeding," inspired by last year's cover of W magazine featuring Angelina Jolie suckling her baby, depicts a seated nude Jolie double-breastfeeding twins. The tranquil bronze statue demonstrates the "football-hold," an accepted technique for breastfeeding two babies simultaneously.

In recognition of the global effort to encourage breastfeeding, one twin is depicted as being of African descent. Future castings of the statue will represent other world cultures through variations of the babies' patina coloring.

"We believe the statue sends a beautiful message by promoting the acceptance of public breastfeeding. Mothers should be encouraged to nurture their babies anywhere," said Sandy Wilson of Phantom-Financial.

"Hopefully, my sculpture inspires an increase of wet nurses to assist women who have concerns about mastitis, or passing HIV to their infant," said artist Daniel Edwards in his Connecticut studio where the Jolie statue currently resides.

"La Leche League International and Loretta McCallister have been very helpful," said project coordinator Cory Allen. "We are applying for approval to put 'Landmark for Breastfeeding' on permanent display in a Metro area park."

Daniel Edwards SculptureThe Jolie monument will be unveiled September 11th at MAINSITE Contemporary Art in Norman.

A cast of the sculpture is expected to be auctioned by Sotheby's October 7th for The New York Academy of Art's annual Take Home A Nude art auction, after being displayed at Holster Projects in London's West End.

"Landmark for Breastfeeding," a short film documenting the project by filmmaker Dave Smith, produced by Vacant Era Films has been posted on YouTube: www.youtube.com/watch?v=QLcdRL-GKoA.

Edwards's past works of celebrity motherhood include "Monument to Pro-Life," featuring Britney Spears giving birth on a bearskin rug, and "Octomom: String of Babies."

[tommieharris91]

Is that gunna be on OU's campus? Cuz it'll be about as ugly as the Buddha statue by the art museum.

[NormanPride]

I think that's technically an angel of some sort. At least that's what I heard. :confused:

[Lott's Bandana]

Is that gunna be on OU's campus? Cuz it'll be about as ugly as the Buddha statue by the art museum.


We've discussed this before, but as ugly as that thing is, OU is very lucky to have it, as the artist is widely considered the greatest living sculptor of this generation.

[picasso]

actually it's bonehead activist celebrities that I detest. you know, the ones who never finished 9th grade and such.

Angelina is doubling up too! Impressive.

[Lott's Bandana]

I didn't know BP was from Shawnee. I thought only Mary Fallin came from those parts...

[GottaHavePride]

I think that's technically an angel of some sort. At least that's what I heard. :confused:

If by angel you mean sphinx. the whole winged, half-woman, half-lion thing.

[Viking Kitten]

If by sphinx you mean "homewrecker."

[GottaHavePride]

I was talking about the oogly thing out the west entrance to the art museum, next to the sculpture of a dood getting raped by a bull, or a bull with a man for a dong, or whatever that one is.

And is it just me, or does the face on the Angelina Jolie sculpture not look like Angelina Jolie very much?

[Viking Kitten]

Still looks like a homewrecker to me. You think some winged half-lion bitch ain't gonna try to take my man?

[NormanPride]

If by angel you mean sphinx. the whole winged, half-woman, half-lion thing.

No, that's what I thought at first as well. But my source said the sculpture's name is "Seraphim" or something angelic like that. But they might have been misinformed.

[GrapevineSooner]

I was told Angelina Jolie's boobs would be in this thread.

[Okla-homey]

I was breastfed. But my mother drank. A lot. To this day, if I have a White Russian, I burp, fall asleep, and poop my pants. :D

[Veritas]

Something tells me that statue would get teabagged. A lot.

[Mixer!]

http://i132.photobucket.com/albums/q16/skip_wilson/mongo-statue3.jpg

[KC//CRIMSON]

"homewrecker."

Team Aniston!

[Jacie]

The tranquil bronze statue demonstrates the "football-hold," an accepted technique for breastfeeding two babies simultaneously.


Sounds perfect for Norman, OK.

[Viking Kitten]

The tranquil bronze statue demonstrates the "football-hold," an accepted technique for breastfeeding two babies simultaneously.


Sounds perfect for Norman, OK.

Only if the statue is dispensing beer.

[TMcGee86]

look at that belly on her.

gross.

[GottaHavePride]

No, that's what I thought at first as well. But my source said the sculpture's name is "Seraphim" or something angelic like that. But they might have been misinformed.

Well, in that case the sculptor needs to take a couple of damn mythology classes. ;)