Wheaton College Professor Smears Jesus Statue With Vacuum Crud, Calls It Art
Eric Owens writes at The Daily Caller:
An art professor at a venerated Christian liberal arts college has covered a life-size statue of Jesus with vacuum dust and is calling it art.
David Hooker, an associate professor at Wheaton College in the suburbs of Chicago, sifted the dust out of massive amounts of vacuumed debris the school’s custodial staff collected for him. He then meticulously smeared it onto a ceramic mannequin of Jesus suffering crucifixion.
The particular Jesus Christ that Hooker covered from head to toe in filth originally came from a Catholic church. He paid $4,000 for it.
"Literally, this dirt contains skin cells from the community. The idea is that our bodies are now connected to the body of Christ,” Hooker is quoted as saying. "At first, some might find it disgusting, or even sacrilegious, but I hope people can get past that and see the meaning behind it."
"If you want a picture of a very suburban, acceptable Jesus, this will not be it," says Jeffrey Greenman, associate dean of biblical and theological studies at Wheaton, according to TheDC.
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