Alison Lapper Pregnant

[monkeytrousers]

I think it's great! link

monkeytrousers - i mean INSIDE. we are all human inside.

do you applaud the statue any louder because its a disabled woman? would you still think she was beautiful if she wasnt disabled? of course you would

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cod

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speak for yourself

i positively glowed (the stretch mark cream was irridescent)

why oh why would u want a HUGE statue of a naked pregnant woman (arms or no arms) what is that supposed to prove? I may be missing the point here (and yes i have read all the posts beneath) but i just don't get it at all.

Why not, staci?

Anyway. Nelson's only got one arm. Don't see anyone complaining about that

have just PMSL

stacijc why would you NOT want a statue of a pregnant woman? What could be more profound?

Haha, art is guff, Cod. There a definitive description! It has to be bound up in all that pretension cos it's trying to be profound, else it wouldn't be art, just something nice to hang on your wall or a cheap badly made video. Good art works when it is profound. I think this does it.

do you applaud the statue any louder because its a disabled woman? would you still think she was beautiful if she wasnt disabled? of course you would

And Nailpolish, I don't know how to answer your question, really. Alison Lapper is disabled, it's who she is but not all that she is - she wouldn't be who she is if she wasn't either. That's what the statue's about too, isn't it?

thats very true monkeytrousers, i agree

Hmmmm..are you taking the piss..?

I don't think pregnant women are any more or less beautiful than non-pregnant women, or that disabled people are more or less beautiful than other people - huma form is a contuum of different conditions and forms, but we have been offered a narrow range of them within traitional boundaries of what is beautiful.

I think that is what this statue is about.

Do you think men sit around worrying about nude staues of men becuase they are so worried that their wrinkly dangly scrotums are not 'beautiful' and shuld therefore not be in public statues? I certainly haven't heard a convo like that in the pub! And yet there are how many posts her saying 'yuk bumps' etc!

no im certainly not taking the piss (honest) i think thats a fair point

ta!

i think it certainly works as a piece of art as it has got people talking and discussing and questioning as all good art should.

I'm glad we've not given the forth plinth to diana (as the media seem to tout - shes hardly a military hero) and I also think its wrong of us in this day and age to glorify war in such a way by insisting it should be military heroes there. I thing the current scheme of new installations is excellent and long may it last.

If we did have a lasting forth plinth incumbent I'd rather it be taken by an ambassaor for peace (and by that I mean a real one not Diana)

I like the statue of AL

Sharklet - you must mean Geri Halliwell, do you?

LMFAO - your a mind reader ;)

I like it. i also think Alison is a very intelligent and articulate woman with a "limb deformity" and if it makes people who are able bodied see people who are disabled ina different light then all is well. but at the end of the day it is a sculpture and people will either love it or hate regardless of the fact a moral debate hjas been started

Haven't seen it myself but looks interesting and all in favour of having a female statue there - there are about two in the whole of London!

But I'm rather fond of Nelson too - he was a real hero and great at defying orders (plus he was disabled too so Lapper piece is quite a neat addition, IMO).

Plus, statues in Trafalgar Square lead onto a series of statues of male war heroes all the way down Whitehall. So it's even better to have a woman there.

I like it. I'd prefer it without the head an neck - I find that too angular compared with the rest of it.

I love pregnant woman shape though, so that probably helps.

As for where it is - doesn't really bother me either way. I prefer it to most of the war statues.

Just been to see this today.

I really like it. For one reason only. And that is that it is uplifting and inspirational for people to have such a person brought to their attention. If it makes people curious enough to find out more about Alison, that's a good thing. And for all people who think they can't do something, and look at her and feel that maybe they can. I think that idea is as much art as any other aspect of the sculpture.

I think it's wonderful! Although her descritpions of sitting around with various parts of her body encased in plaster of paris didn't sound like too much fun. All for the Art ...