Sarah Palin’s High School Installs Remarkably Vaginal ‘Warrior’ Sculpture
Wasilla High School — that’s Sarah Palin’s alma mater, folks — recently installed this sculpture by local artists, only to cover it with tarps the same day. Why? Students are giggling over how much it looks like a lady’s periwinkle.
The $100,000 sculpture by Jim Dault and Shala Dobson, titled Warrior Within (tee hee), features “two warrior shields encircled by glowing feathers,” according to the description of the piece. The hand print represents “good deeds”; the flame symbol, “the spark of inspiration.” The stone is “the strong material from which a warrior is made.”
WHS principal Amy Spargo, who received complaints from students and parents, says she isn’t sure if the art is best suited for display at a high school, and she’s worried the controversy will incite vandals to damage the art. But she stands by the piece: “I don’t think there was any prep work on my part to prepare the student body for it. It’s a great concept about thinking about what it really means to be a warrior.”
Come on, lots of serious art looks like genitalia, which is often part of its significance. The beauty of sculpture is that it can be interpreted in so many different ways. Teachers could totally use the sculpture to spark a serious discussion on phallic imagery in art history.
How do you get kids to stop giggling over body-part terminology? You don’t accede to their immaturity and hide every artificial orifice from sight. You say, “No shit, you idiots, this sculpture totally looks like a big, stone ladyflower, and it’s awesome because vaginas are awesome.” Then you scream “VAGINA! VAGINA!” at them and make them scream it back. And then your school loses funding.
There’s no word on whether House Republicans will now try to regulate the statue.
HV oft-commenter @scooterbeanbag chimes in with this scene:
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