Artrocity as "Art"

This story from Stand Firm is the most evil thing I have read in a long, long time. Maybe ever:

Yale Senior Gets Pregnant, Induces Abortion for ‘Art’
Thursday, April 17, 2008 • 10:08 am

That's right:

Art major Aliza Shvarts '08 wants to make a statement.

Beginning next Tuesday, Shvarts will be displaying her senior art project, a documentation of a nine-month process during which she artificially inseminated herself "as often as possible" while periodically taking abortifacient drugs to induce miscarriages. Her exhibition will feature video recordings of these forced miscarriages as well as preserved collections of the blood from the process.

The goal in creating the art exhibition, Shvarts said, was to spark conversation and debate on the relationship between art and the human body. But her project has already provoked more than just debate, inciting, for instance, outcry at a forum for fellow senior art majors held last week. And when told about Shvarts' project, students on both ends of the abortion debate have expressed shock — saying the project does everything from violate moral code to trivialize abortion.

But Shvarts insists her concept was not designed for "shock value."

"I hope it inspires some sort of discourse," Shvarts said

If by "discourse" you mean, "You're evil, and a moron," then yeah... mission accomplished.

So, she deliberately got pregnant an unknown number of times to deliberately film herself "miscarrying" - aborting. Then she saved the blood, mixed it with vaseline so it would not congeal and wrapped it up in plastic sheeting to display while projecting multiple films of herself aborting her children. All to "promote discourse". This young woman is either incredibly evil or deranged. Or both. May God have mercy on her, she needs it. Some day, when she is older and not such a know-it-all college student, she may come to realize exactly the nature of her acts. On that day, she will need the mercy and forgiveness of God, because she will never be able to forgive herself. Pray that she comes to that day.

The rest of the story is here at the Yale Daily News.

This young man is going to be loosed on the world soon, as well -

Art major Juan Castillo '08 said that although he was intrigued by the creativity and beauty of her senior project, not everyone was as thrilled as he was by the concept and the means by which she attained the result.

"I really loved the idea of this project, but a lot other people didn't," Castillo said. "I think that most people were very resistant to thinking about what the project was really about. [The senior-art-project forum] stopped being a conversation on the work itself."

God help us all. "Intrigued by the creativity and beauty" of her project? The beauty!!!!!! And just what exactly is the project "really" about, other than worship of self? This young woman has shown she believes she is a goddess, with the power of life and death in her hands. Molech and Kali meet in the Art exhibits of Yale.

From a comment on Stand Firm:

This is surely a hoax.

Actually, I’m starting to suspect this as well. Is it possible that the “art” project is really to say that she did something unthinkable and then to see what people say about it? The actual logistics of what she says she did are pretty difficult.

[38] Posted by Catholic Mom on 04-17-2008 at 02:09 PM

I pray it is a hoax, Catholic Mom. But even if it is, now that the "unthinkable" has been thought, it will eventually be done. Permission has been given to take "art" to the next level.