I really enjoyed reading this story. The way the story is told takes you through the exact same emotional path he had throughout his experience with NippleJesus. As I read I found myself explaining the piece to myself, defending it as people from the story questioned it. It is easy to understand why he got so protective of the piece, he spent all of his time defending it to others, and creating the reason behind it for himself. I think he thought the reason behind it was to show that even those people who are higher up, like the Vicar and the politician, choose to get close to the painting and look at the boobs, and are therefore, just as perverted as they claimed Martha was. I agree with this to an extent, but I think this was mostly his own insecurity. A large bald man with tattoos who uses the word fuck or fucking in every sentence has probably never been thought of as an authority figure like a Vicar or a politician. Because of this he probably wants those people who he perceives as looking down on him, to be exposed as the creeps he has always thought they were.
I disagree with his reasoning behind the painting, however, and adapted my own as I read. As a Catholic, I liked the idea of artwork like this because it shows that Jesus came for us, lived with us, and was killed by us. Almost as if he is made of our imperfections. So that's what I was thinking as I read along and then just like Dave, I got pissed when I found out she was happy someone smashed it. I understand that she wanted to use the footage to prove her point, but that just seems a little messed up. She had to have worked very hard on the piece, and she created something beautiful, and instead of letting people make their own impression of it, she wanted it destroyed so she could prove her point.That doesn't seem like art to me, art should be up to the viewer.
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