This isn't a poll going to a congressman or anything -
just one being run by a TV station that doesn't have
the gods-given sense to let people express themselves.
So, please, go take a look at it and tell them that
no, the fundies aren't the only ones who'll vote.
--- fandom <fandom_at_sarahbewley.com> wrote:
> To: SlashKink_at_yahoogroups.com
> From: fandom <fandom_at_sarahbewley.com>
> Date: Mon, 04 Mar 2002 11:26:39 -0500
> Subject: [SlashKink] OT: We need your help regarding
> stopping censorship
> Reply-to: SlashKink_at_yahoogroups.com
>
> Hi Everyone -
>
> The local television station has a poll on their web
> site about whether or
> not controversial art shows (my boyfriend Pat
> Payne's in particular) should
> be allowed at state schools. The local
> fundamentalists have really rallied
> to vote against his work.
>
> What's interesting is they have said it is because
> the art is sexual. The
> title of the show is "A Look at Violence in
> Religious and Sexual
> Imagery." They've even claimed there are sexual
> images in the art that do
> not exist - are not there - never were there. It's
> really a case of
> propaganda, and most who are voting have never even
> seen the work. I know
> that I'm asking some of you to vote without having
> seen it, either, but you
> all know me, and some of you are familiar with the
> high quality of Pat's
> art work.
>
> I'm asking that you please go and vote Yes - that
> work like Pat's should be
> allowed to be shown at state educational facilities.
> This is censorship of
> the worst kind - censorship based on ignorance.
>
> The web site is:
>
> http://www.wcjb.com/poll.asp
>
> This is Pat's artist's statement about the work:
>
> I am trying to understand our species' propensity
> for violence and the
> degradation of others, and have noted two common
> sources of depictions of
> that inhumanity are found in religious (particularly
> Catholic) and sexual
> imagery.
>
> The idea for combining the two types of images came
> to me when, a few years
> back at a NYC flea market, I looked through a box of
> old black and white
> bondage photos from the 1950's. I bought one that
> showed a woman whose
> arms were tied straight out from her sides in a
> crucifixion-like
> manner. My first image "blend" was an attempt to
> combine that image with
> the full-color image on the inside front cover of
> the Children's Missal I'd
> received in first grade, at age six -- that of an
> emaciated, bloodied dead
> man whose hands and feet were nailed to a cross.
>
> I don't make these images to shock or offend, but to
> try to come to a
> better understanding of the concepts/perceptions of
> spirituality and
> sexuality, acceptable and unacceptable behaviors and
> images, veneration,
> arousal, morality, and objectifications. The longer
> I've worked on this
> project, the more questions I've raised for myself.
> I'm hoping to get
> closer to understanding faith, true love, reverence,
> pleasure, eroticism,
> fear, control, power, and how and where any lines or
> boundaries get blurred
> or crossed or forgotten.
>
> What's really frightening is the anger/rage that has
> been expressed toward
> us. We had to have a police escort to get to our
> car last Thursday evening
> after the public panel discussion. What was strange
> was that people
> weren't just threatening Pat, they were threatening
> me because I identified
> myself as having been raised Southern Baptist, a
> Christian and a person of
> deep faith - but that I focused my joy on the
> resurrection and the
> ascension rather than the crucifixion.
>
> Several very large young men surrounded me as we
> were trying to leave and
> were shouting into my face, "It's the blood that's
> important! It's the
> death! You have to focus on the blood and the
> death!"
>
> There have been quotes attributed to Pat by the tv
> station (the one doing
> the above poll), and they've never spoken to Pat.
> They also quote a
> Patrick Scully of the Catholic League of New York
> City. Scully has also
> posted a press release about Pat's art on this site:
>
> http://www.catholicleague.org/
>
> The images he lists as being depicted in the art DO
> NOT EXIST. He's never
> seen the work. In fact, he wrote to Pat and asked
> for a catalog of Pat's
> art. He had not responded to it because when he
> checked the profile of his
> e-mail address on AOL (where both Pat and he have
> e-mail), an obscene
> profile came up.
>
> It's all very strange.
>
> So, please, if you feel comfortable doing so - we
> would appreciate your
> vote at the poll.
>
> Thanks.
>
>
> Sarah
>
> SarahBewley_at_sarahbewley.com
> www.sarahbewley.com
>
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