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30 March
2006
Complaints Over
Britney Spears Sculpture
A nude
sculpture depicting singer
Britney
Spears
giving birth to her son has prompted a
flood of
emails from both pro-choice and
anti-abortionists.
Monument
to Pro-Life: The Birth of Sean Preston
will be unveiled at New York's Capla
Kesting Art gallery in April
2006.
Gallery
co-owner David Kesting said they had
received 3,000 emails, some from
"pro-life" supporters who thought it was
degrading to their movement.
He added
that other people were "upset" the
sculpture was a pro-life
monument.
The
life-size work, by artist Daniel Edwards,
features Britney
crouched on all fours on a bear-skin rug
as she gives birth.
It will
be displayed at the gallery alongside a
display case filled with anti-abortion
materials.
Edwards
said: "This is a new take on pro-life.
Pro-lifers normally promote bloody images
of abortion. This is the image of
birth."
The
gallery is hiring extra security guards
for the free exhibit, which opens on 7
April and runs for two weeks.
The
sculpture comes six months after
24-year-old Spears gave birth to her first
child, Sean Preston, with husband Kevin
Federline.
Edwards
said he has never spoken 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."
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