http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060328/ap_on_en_mu/britney_art_brouhaha_4

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"NEW YORK - Britney Spears will soon be giving birth again — in Brooklyn, as a sexy sculpture that has drawn thousands of hate e-mails. ADVERTISEMENT "This is a new take on pro-life. Pro-lifers normally promote bloody images of abortion. This is the image of birth," Daniel Edwards said of his work, to be unveiled at a Brooklyn gallery in April, months after Edwards' sculpture of Ted Williams severed head stirred up an artistic storm. The life-size pop princess is naked and pregnant, crouching face-down on a bare-toothed bear rug as the baby's head appears on the opposite end. On Tuesday at his studio in Moosup, Conn., Edwards was pouring a mold to cast the sculpture in resin. It'll be transported to the Capla Kesting Fine Art gallery in Brooklyn's artsy Williamsburg neighborhood, where Britney the artwork is to appear next to a display case filled with pro-life materials. When some bloggers heard about the exhibit — "Monument to Pro-Life: The Birth of Sean Preston" — the gallery was inundated with about 3,000 e-mails from around the world in just a week, split between pro-choice and pro-life opinions. "We also got calls from Tokyo, England, France. Some people are upset that Britney is being used for this subject matter," said gallery co-owner David Kesting. "Others who are pro-life thought this was degrading to their movement. And some pro-choice people were upset that this is a pro-life monument." The gallery is hiring extra security guards for the free exhibit opening April 7 and running two weeks. The sculptor's three children — ages 3, 6, and 8 — helped build the first clay model of the sculpted Britney, mainly the bear rug. "At first, the kids thought it was kind of gross. Yukky. But then, they got curious," their 40-year-old dad said in a telephone interview from his home, which is near his studio. Compared to the hubbub around his art, Edwards' life is peaceful. He takes care of his two boys and a girl during the day, while his wife, a microbiologist whom he married right after high school, goes to work. Then they switch childcare duties while he works on his art. His sculpture of the pop diva comes six months after she gave birth to her first child, Sean Preston — and about a half year after Edwards displayed what he called his "shrine" to baseball great Williams, whose body was decapitated and frozen in hopes that medical science could one day revive him. When asked why he creates art that generates publicity for him by piggybacking on subjects hyped in the media, Edwards said: "You're bombarded with these stories. And there's a thread that winds back to the art. That's not a bad thing. People are interested in these topics, and it works for art as well." Spears' publicist, Leslie Sloan, did not immediately respond to a request for comment from The Associated Press on Tuesday. Edwards said he never spoke to or met the star, and that he fashioned her face and figure from photographs. "I admire her. This is an idealized figure," he said. "Everyone is coming at me with anger and venom, but I depicted her as she has depicted herself — seductively. Suddenly, she's a mom." His aim, said the son of a mother who gave birth to him when she was 17, was to stir up debate about a difficult topic that "is greater than the issues presented by either pro-life and pro-choice advocates." When asked whether he's pro-life, he said, "You nailed me. I'm not saying that I am. I wouldn't march with either pro-life or pro-choice advocates. This is not meant to be political." A Democrat, "I don't judge anybody for the decision they make.""

Wow... I'm not even sure what I think about that... even as a pro-lifer...

And is she... raping that bear rug?

no, I don't have an image from the other end

3/28/2006 4:56:30 PM

Give the sculpture a different name and no body would know its supposed to be of BS.

"His aim... was to stir up debate"

"This is not meant to be political."

I wonder, what kind of experience is having your cake and eatting it too?

3/28/2006 4:59:44 PM

chit chat did it

3/28/2006 5:03:00 PM

chit chat having done it might be similar enough to the lounge doing it, but since there is also an exact copy in the soap box... atleast there it will be treated with a seriousness thats different enough from chit chat to have its own merit in the realms of politics, art, and other serious discussions.

3/28/2006 5:06:39 PM

Is he referrring to Britney as an unwed white trash mother??

3/28/2006 5:15:25 PM

TERMINATE.

3/28/2006 5:16:07 PM

they need to post the opposite end.

edit: i mean picture not post

[Edited on March 28, 2006 at 5:18 PM. Reason : ]

3/28/2006 5:18:10 PM

wait...didn't she have a pre-planned c-section to avoid the pains of labor? this statue makes no sense.

3/28/2006 5:18:23 PM

how does britney feel about this?

3/28/2006 5:28:37 PM

double-yuu tee eff

3/28/2006 5:29:51 PM

^^ yep she did. retarded

3/28/2006 5:30:18 PM

TheTabbyCat just pwnt'd the sculptor!
I didn't know that though.

3/28/2006 5:35:09 PM

I give it 3 days before its on Ebay ... and making more money than the grilled cheese fiasco...

3/28/2006 5:54:44 PM

TabbyCat is right, Britney had a C-section

so there's no way the baby's head could've been poking out the back

3/28/2006 6:29:56 PM

that doesn't even look like britney spears.

3/28/2006 6:35:19 PM

can you see the vag?

id buy it it foam rubber of some sort...

3/29/2006 9:22:09 AM

For one thing, it doesn't look like her. For another, my friend just had a baby. FORTY FUCKING HOURS OF LABOR WITH NO DRUGS. Fuck that. I'm pro-choice.

3/29/2006 1:17:37 PM

I just wanna know something, if she is supposed to be giving birth, why is she in the doggy position looking as if she's bout to get raped...lol.seems kinda freaky to me. Crazy artists

3/31/2006 11:06:01 AM

some ppl give birth in that position.

more natural or something.

3/31/2006 11:16:38 AM

I just wanna know something, if she is supposed to be giving birth, why is she in the doggy position looking as if she's bout to get raped...lol.seems kinda freaky to me. Crazy artists

3/31/2006 11:35:42 AM

Comfort ^

It's a hot sculpture, however kinda dumb since she was rumored to have Csection.

3/31/2006 10:05:27 PM

thats pretty sick, and on a different note, why do some people think that pregnant women are sexy?

4/1/2006 12:57:09 AM

CAUSE THEY ARE

4/1/2006 12:59:30 AM

wow, I wonder what Britney thinks about this


that statue disturbs me

4/1/2006 1:06:16 AM

what I want to know is, what does the other side look like? They never show it... I mean, is it in graphic detail?

4/1/2006 2:14:07 AM

Supposedly you can see the crowning of the baby's head and I assume that to mean graphic detail.

4/1/2006 4:43:11 AM

what I want to know is, what does the other side look like? They never show it... I mean, is it in graphic detail?

4/1/2006 12:22:03 PM

Pregnant women are sexy.
They carry the ability to give life and it is natural.
Those who don't appreciate it (especially men) blow my mind.

4/2/2006 8:41:35 PM

Pregnancy is something that happens every day all over the world.
It's not a miracle.
Continuing to populate the world isn't sexy.

4/2/2006 11:56:37 PM

I personally think the world would be better off if the entire human race disappeared... not that I care to go out and die or see someone else die, but we sure do kill off a lot of other species. What is up with all of these belly shirts for pregnant women too? Those stores in the mall displaying those skin tight shirts for pregnant women... that's just a bit tacky, I don't care if it is in style. Are we proud of overpopulating the world? A large majority of people can't seem to control just how much they contribute to the population, nor can they afford it, then everyone else has to pay for them. Pregnant women are not sexy. Pregnant women who are on welfare and their third+ child are definitely not sexy.

4/3/2006 12:49:29 AM

what I want to know is, what does the other side look like? They never show it... I mean, is it in graphic detail?

4/3/2006 3:02:31 AM

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"Pregnancy is something that happens every day all over the world. It's not a miracle. Continuing to populate the world isn't sexy."

bitter people suck.

4/3/2006 5:04:24 AM

What do I have to be bitter about? Not being held back by kids I don't want? Marrying my husband because I love him and not because I think he'd make good breeding stock?

4/3/2006 10:42:26 AM

lol, I'm defintely gonna swing over to Williamsburg to check that out.

4/3/2006 1:49:53 PM

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"FORTY FUCKING HOURS OF LABOR WITH NO DRUGS. Fuck that. I'm pro-choice."

So avoiding the labor pain is worth more than your childs life. Interesting.

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"What do I have to be bitter about? Not being held back by kids I don't want? Marrying my husband because I love him and not because I think he'd make good breeding stock?"

If you dont want kids, then how about be responsible enough not to reproduce. You should get steralized so you wont have to kill your kids.

4/3/2006 4:32:19 PM

i added this to my topics just in case one of you sleuths finds a picture from the rear.

4/3/2006 5:26:44 PM

didn't read it

but that is so, so dumb

4/3/2006 5:38:41 PM