News organizations have been rooting and snuffling around the immense Palin head, titled "We're Having a Tea Parody" (not "Pear-ody," as reported elsewhere), ever since mixed-media artist J. Taylor Wallace debuted it in 2011 at a Memphis public-art show. The anthropomorphic cooker hit the news again last week, when Wallace fashioned a meal with it to celebrate the opening of a new sculpture garden in Chicago.
A couple notes about its provenance are worth mentioning here. The sculpture includes an oven for smoking delicious meats because, in charming Southern fashion, that was a requirement for entry in the Memphis exhibit. The Palin element is there because Wallace wanted to make a statement about her rigid, some might say extremist ideology.
"I know Alaskans have their own issues up there, but helicopter-wolf killing is not what I'm a big fan of," he explains. "A terrifying prospect to me is, what if she was in charge of the Department of Interior?"
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As you can imagine Mr. Wallace has received some rather interesting e-mails, Here are a few of them:
It is a matter of time till you are the pig, was it fun for you pig.
Enjoy your 15 minutes of fame by insulting someone. Looks more like a morph of H Clinton and R Maddow, anyway.
I noticed your work of art in the Chicago Tribune this morning. I am sure you are elated with the exposure you have received. Unfortunately, you obviously needed to accomplish this by using Sarah Palin (an easy target) as your inspiration. I hope the feminist groups in the United States take note of your efforts to humiliate a woman of intelligence, courage and leadership. The role model that these groups have promoted over the years to have the opportunity to become President or Vice President of our nation has been ridiculed by your "work of art". I work in the art field, totally enjoy creativity, am not a feminist, and am totally not impressed by your work. I feel sorry for the people of Bridgeport and visitors that will be exposed to your art.
Wow, looks like MY e-mail inbox!
They also have tried to insult Mr. Wallace by calling him "gay" which, as most of us have come to recognize, is the "go to" insult from those trying to defend Palin's honor. (Gee, now who has been getting called that recently?)
Now as if all of this were not entertaining enough (And you KNOW that it is), I was also sent a link to a site that has decided that this smoker is ripe for photoshopping.
Enjoy!
Like I have said over and over again, THIS was always going to be the fate of the Lunatic from Lake Lucille, to be the butt of jokes for many years to come.
Well, after all, Edvard Munch's "The Scream" fetched $120M.
ReplyDeleteThis is much better because it involves a real person and has no pretensions other than being cartoonish and wonderfully snarky.
And this smoker is a scream too! I just love it! Particularly it fired up at night! Lol!
DeleteWhy don't conservatives have a sense of humour? I seriously wonder about this all the time. They genuinely do not understand humour and satire, and the only jokes they find funny are mean spirited jabs at the unfortunate.
Ok first of all that sculpture looks pretty darn realistic to me and possibly even a little flattering! Second, Sarah Palin and company can blog and rant all they want about how she's such a good and caring person but does anyone know of any other public figure that has such a rabid, dangerous, and hate filled fan base? Like attracts like, and she's attracting people who share her hate filled personality. It must be exhausting to hate so strongly, which might explain her rapid aging.
ReplyDeleteIntelligence, courage, and leadership? Try ignorance, cowardice, and divisiveness. This is the brand she created for herself so DEAL with it, minions!
ReplyDeleteFrankly, I'm surprised that the faithful (code for delusional) haven't tried to spin that after dark image as positive: her words burn like righteous fire, casting coals of humiliation on the haters, cleansing fire of truth, umm... anybody? Help me out here, guys - i'm all out of overstrained, ridiculous imagery
ReplyDelete"I hope the feminist groups in the United States take note of your efforts to humiliate a woman of intelligence, courage and leadership."
ReplyDeleteWe always do. This, however, does not rise to the occasion.
That email sounds just like the over-the-top faux indignation that comes spurting out of her very own huge mouth. So, either she wrote it, or one of her sychophants who thinks just like her wrote it.
ReplyDeleteAt least the grill has a useful purpose, unlike the person it is modeled after.
And yet, if it were say, Michelle Obama, they'd be throwing him up on their shoulders. Lining up to pay $50 a plate of deliciously cooked meats. Throwing their trash and maybe even bodily fluids inside.
ReplyDeleteI love the one from the "artist" that totally gets creativity but tries to shut this one down. Yep, that's the next Director of the National Endowment for the Arts.
and says "I'm not a feminist"
Delete???
duh!
No, shit, Sherlock!!
Feminists don't support women who use their fake tits to get into powerful positions they are frighteningly unqualified for!
Didn't Sarah patent her name? Could she cause trouble for him?
ReplyDeleteNope. notice the title of the work, for one. Two, she is a public figure, and satire and parody is protected speech. Now, if he were to try to make a line of them (whether it did or did not look like her, or was just a Weber with a name decal on it,) call them the Sarah Palin smoker and mass produce them, then that would be infringement.
DeleteCopyright. not patent. And no she is helpless. He's not selling these things, it isn't "named" Sarah Palin and finally it's considered art. Sarah's outta luck if she thinks she can sue.
DeleteHopefully, she hasn't patented her smell.
DeleteBaggers lack many things and a sense of humor is one of them. If a skilled Photo-Shopper could portray her as a 'Mars Attacks!' alien, that would be perfect.
ReplyDeleteThe Mars Attack figure should be reserved for Callista.
DeleteHa! You're right Lynne. I wasn't thinking.
DeleteThe people that sent those hateful emails are the same people that pass around the most disgusting photoshopped photos and jokes of our First Lady (and President).
ReplyDeleteQuitter Queen Esther is untouchable, you know.
"Iconic"
DeleteBwhaaahahahahahahaaaaa!
+1
DeleteSame with Palin defending her (yeah, sure, right, as in typical lying right) surveyor's marks in her ads.
Ahem, we're not all so stupid to not get her coded, teaspeak dog whistle, gunsight markings. Duh!
Also tea taliban types who are using/posting the Don't ReNig in 2012 bumperstickers on their vehicles.
My response to this sculpture is that it really does evoke the sense of uninformed, shrill, inflammatory, shrieking rhetoric that is the essence of the Tea Party movement and is embodied best by Sarah Palin. This is a statue that pays homage to the ignorance, prejudice and narcissism she represents. The artistic expression is powerful: the choice and use of the material, the harsh planes and angles, the unyielding surfaces - the determined set of the jaw! For me, it is a great statement perfectly realized. And that it can smoke some meat - and look like a fiery demon from the depths of hell - is pretty wonderful. I love it!
ReplyDeleteYes, yes, and yes!
DeleteUnlike the real Sarah Palin, this one actually can do something - cook meat!
DeleteThen there is the icky sexual image: yeah, she'll tease you but do you really want a blow job? Those teeth! That jaw! Those flames!
All it needs is a forked tongue licking the flames. I agree that the symbolism is powerful!
DeleteI hope that sculpture is protected. I’m always startled at how clever and well-engineered it is. A national treasure, lol.
ReplyDeleteif there were to be an Top Ten Reasons on Why It Was Worth The Wait....the image with the smoke coming off the top of her head would vie for #1. patience.
ReplyDeleteIf the Bitch was getting a percentage of the sales or advertisement, she would not have any problems with this.
ReplyDeleteSuch a Hoe.
So now we have Sara's image as a cooker - perfect - whatever happened to the sculpture of her or Briskets groin out in front of the HS in Wasilla?
ReplyDeleteAll we're missing are the belmont's and briskets new chin
This is the perfect representation of the Bald One...mouth ALWAYS wide open..spewing her toxic waste into the air! Unfortunately her "fans" at the Asylum are to busy this morning picking Meh Rmoney's Energy Secretary to care about this beautiful sculpture!
ReplyDeleteYep...those fools are fighting over how Rmoney will pick Baldy as his ES and then she will "dismantled the agency from the inside"....BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA...WHEW!
Love me some early morning laugh...always clears out the sinus'. LOL!!
Bristol says it would make a great meth cooker.
ReplyDeleteIt is so appropriate that you can cook red meat in her mouth, since, ya know, that is all that every comes out of it anyway. Great Piece of Art!
ReplyDeleteThe Screechy Wretch(tm) has apparently received secret messages from the Rmoney campaign which she believes is offering her the cabinet position of Secretary of The Interior, if she endorses the nominee. With her impressive expertise in land management, resource development, huntering, fishering, etc she's really an unbelievable fit for that job. Unfortunately, the ACTUAL job offer is for Secretary of the INFERIOR. Arguably, a much better match, n'est pas?
ReplyDeleteOMG I love the photoshops! Hahahaha! I'm not surprised he's getting hate mail from the mouth breathing low info losers.
ReplyDeleteWhat intelligent, couragous, true leader of a woman got insulted by a pig pit that looks like Sarah? I certainly didn't, I find it humorous and very creative :)
ReplyDeleteThe pic with $arah cowering with open mouth in her closet is the bomb
ReplyDeleteIf anything, the pig deserves an apology, for being compared to this Bitch.
DeleteDid anybody check to see of she is claiming homestead on the house she isn't living in? It is against the law to claim homestead on more than one house.
ReplyDeleteSo the dude or dudette said in the hate-filled email that:
ReplyDelete"... I hope the feminist groups in the United States take note of your efforts to humiliate a woman of intelligence, courage and leadership...."
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Well no one will be able to do that for the simple fact of that matter is that Palin is neither intelligent, has lacks real honest-to-goodness "courage" and she certainly has already shown in more instances then not, that she's NOT a "leader" since she lacks all decent "leadership" skills.
And I hope that person who wrote that gets to see my opinion of their lack of good upstanding decent character. Cartoons have more decent character than Palin has in her polka dotted pinky toe.
--GypsyGirl
Looks a bit satanical, devilish.
ReplyDeleteThat reminds me, hey sarah, hell called this morning. Must have been for you - they said they wanted their Hoback.
Way cool! Hard to pick my fav.....but there is something special about Scarah face in the closet. :)
ReplyDeleteYou forgot this one....
ReplyDeletehttp://i50.tinypic.com/apjl5.jpg
My only comment is that the Sarah Palin smoker has too much hair on top. If it was realistic it would have less hair and the wig would be crooked.
ReplyDeletePlease watch our blessed Madame spread joy and God's peace to these fortunate witnesses.
ReplyDeletehttp://sea4peepee.blogspot.com/2012/05/women-of-joy-guest-speaker-queen.html
What’s Better Than Being a Palin?
ReplyDeleteIn a new blog post titled “What’s Better Than Being A Palin?”, Bristol says she is known by many as “Republican Sarah Palin’s daughter” and to locals as “Iron Dog champion Todd Palin’s kid” but that there’s much more to her than that. Referring a packet she recently received on single parenting, Bristol says she appreciated the information and notion that single parents shouldn’t limit themselves to that title alone:
“Robert D. Jones writes that we should mainly view ourselves as Christians, not as ‘single parents.’ …Many times, people try to define me by my parents and my family, which is wonderful. I’m so proud of all of them! But my true spiritual identity is even better than proudly wearing the last name of ‘Palin.’ How much better is it that I’m a child of God?”
http://www.patheos.com/blogs/bristolpalin/2012/05/what%E2%80%99s-better-than-being-a-palin/
Bristol, you are so pathetic having your ghost-written blog create the illusion that you are actually writing it. You are attached to your parents and have not grown up at all. You are a fake--just like Sarah. You've inherited a warped outlook on life. You are not smart, nor are you independent. Your life-line is attached to your mother-in-name only and you better watch out because she is deteriorating rapidly.
DeleteYou are a lazy, overfed, unintelligent nitwit without any true purpose in life--other than drifting along mindlessly and grifting anybody who is as stupid as you are. Try breaking the mold, even though it is moldy and stinks. Try breaking free from the ridiculous path you have chosen in life.
Nah, you are too enmeshed with Mommy Dearest. Watch out when she breaks apart. She has not had your best interests at heart. Of course why would she, unless it is serves her pathetic purposes. She's just at lying, self-serving grifter.
P.S. How's the real estate investment working out for you? Wow, what a deal huh?
Yeah, Using the same logic, I suppose Levi's a dentist because he fills cavities?
Delete"I work in the art field, totally enjoy creativity, am not a feminist, and am totally not impressed by your work. I feel sorry for the people of Bridgeport and visitors that will be exposed to your art."
ReplyDeleteWorking "in the art field" has obviously not given you an appreciation for any imagination, diversity or creativity. This expression of sarah palin captures her gaping, hollowed ugliness...and also serves a practical purpose in roasting, for instance, a pig.
Gryph.... THIS is hilarious... Especially the 'smoker' in Memphis... Further down the road in the REAL DEEP South, serious smoker's actually have wheels and are licensed to be pulled behind pick-up trucks to the nearest fishin hole for a full weekend of BBQ and beer swillin
ReplyDeleteThat last one is PERFECT!
ReplyDeleteI love that site you linked, they've added "the screamer", which first came to mind when I first saw it.
ReplyDeleteThis guy does good work, somehow he got all the angles and sharp edges just right, and details like the empty head and sparse hair.
I wish he would mass market them, I know I'd buy one!
What is it with the teabaggers and not getting humor? Those emails are delusional!