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The People’s Cube put up this graphic as a commentary on the “art”work of Yale student Aliza Shvarts, whose project supposedly involved “repeatedly inseminat[ing] herself with sperm freshly collected from campus masturbators, then induc[ing] miscarriages and stor[ing] the resulting blood with fertilized eggs in order to smear it over the surface of a large suspended cube at a student art show.”

Now, to be fair, that’s a disgusting art project, although one can hardly call it new:

Indeed, Ms. Shvarts’ pursuit of unusual purposes for body parts is not new. In 1943, another uninhibited woman named Ilse Koch tried to deconstruct the “normative understanding of the relationship between art and the human body” by having a lampshade made from tattooed skins of Buchenwald prisoners.

In their usual fashion of odd humour, the people at The People’s Cube have come up with a graphic that I think rather nicely captures the reality of the situation. I think, though, that the message of the graphic (with a touch of Photoshoppery) applies much more broadly than just in that circumstance.

Hence:

For that is the sad reality, is it not? As previously discussed, abortion exists in opposition to motherhood, and the reality is that when a woman procures an abortion, a human being — who would otherwise have gone on to grow up into a child that produces just this sort of art project for his or her mother in grade school — ceases to be.

~ by Kenneth on May 13, 2008.