Cosmos-Liturgy-Sex

Australian artist, Priscilla Bracks, insisted that her Jesus_ bin Laden “art”, was not meant to offend but a medium in which to promote discussions and to ask questions about how we think about our world and what is accepted and what is not accepted. Bracks is apparently another victim of the radical christian right who attack anyone who believes differently than ourselves. Imagine the shock of Bracks being blind sided over the controversy of Jesus morphing to a terrorist.

Her explanation of choosing Jesus and bin-Laden for the subjects of her “art”:

When you observe these two people, Osama Bin Ladin and Jesus, their ethics could not be more different. But they were both pursued by two of the world’s most powerful armies – the US and the Roman armies. Jesus is clearly defined by history, but I am interested in how history will treat the image of Osama.

This work has quite an open text so people are likely to read the image in many different ways. Some have mentioned they see it as a juxtaposition of good and evil, whilst others are interested in its comment on how iconic figures are created.

I guess someone should have let Bracks in the little fact that her main premise for comparing Jesus to bin-Laden is grossly inaccurate, as it was the Jewish Scribes and Pharisees who were pursuing Jesus. The Jews had NO Army and were under the control of the Romans who were at best, indifferent towards Jesus. Which brings us to the point of asking why is Jesus really being compared to bin-Laden? Although I have no way of knowing the heart and mind of the artist, she must either lack social awareness and sensitivity, or she’s ignorant and reckless towards research that goes into art work, or she’s lying.

As children, how many of us didn’t enjoy any opportunity to provoke or take a jab those who we did not agree with nor like? I wonder how the crowd who supports her “art”work would be just as supportive if say, she morphed Margarett Sanger with Hitler or Stalin?