Report on the "Penis Head" statue [View All]

[MuseRider]

I went early to my concert just to see this "outrageous" piece of art. My first impression was that is is very small. From the picture in the paper it looked huge. It really looks more like a cartoon than an evil bishop. The mitre hat, well, if you look at it and think penis I suppose you could see that but in fact it also looked like female genitalia. There were 2 young women, students, looking at it. They didn't think it was bad either and stated that they were very proud that the university was not going to take it down. The plaque on the statue was the story of the artist being a child going to his first confession. To me it just appears to be what a young, frightened child might envision on the other side of the screen. IMO it is not a big deal. We see much worse and more graphic things every day here in Topeka on the signs of Fred Phelps.

Oh, and by the way, the concert went very well. We got a standing O and I am glad to have the season opener down. On to the next.