I like art. I do. I even sometimes find a great deal of relaxation where others are repulsed in that Modern Art section of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. I incredibly miss it now more than ever as I usually would go during finals just to relax and forget about school for a few hours. I suppose I could go to the National Gallery down here. But why when I can just sit at home and type complaints?

So, I do like art and tend to think I have some sort of open mind about it.

However, I can’t stand it when “artists” do senseless controversial things to create “art” and all they end up doing is creating shock value.

So some Yale art student obviously wasn’t getting enough attention for talent and had to resort to plain old controversy. What’s controversial? Let’s see.. homosexuality in art is as old as the day is long. Degrading religious relics became mainstream with Madonna and Pepsi. So, she resorted to the one thing that everyone always gets up in arms about – killing babies.

Homegirl decided to get herself pregnant and induce abortions and document it. Real cool!

She said the purpose of the project was to get people to think more about the connection between art and human bodies and also the nature of our bodies themselves. While concluding a personal statement, she wrote:

“Just as it is a myth that women are “meant” to be feminine and men masculine, that penises and vaginas are “meant” for penetrative heterosexual sex (or that mouths, anuses, breasts, feet or leather, silicone, vinyl, rubber, or metal implements are not “meant” for sex at all), it is a myth that ovaries and a uterus are “meant” to birth a child.”

Ummm I don’t know about Yale art students but I believe in evolution. All my body parts are there because they serve some type of purpose, made human beings with those qualities more successful, and those beings had more babies. I have a hard substance growing out of the tips of my fingers and toes to protect them from injury. I have an opposable thumb that makes so many tasks easier. And although I’m still not quite sure why I have whites in my eyes, I do know that the sole purpose of my ovaries and uterus is to make babies.

And not to kill them.

So now everyone from Matt Drudge to Perez Hilton to myself is writing about it. Job well done. She obviously wouldn’t have gotten that done otherwise. But is anyone gonna want to go see it? Sponsor her? Buy a piece? Doubtful. Nothing shows a lack of talent more than resorting to pushing buttons.

On the other hand, it isn’t as ridiculous as this.