Statue of Virgin Mary

Provocative. What do you think POErs?

Statue of the Virgin Mary

Thought provoking   -   a woman like any other! 

Actually the sculpture is entitled "Virgin Mother"

I have not been downtown into Portland for many an day..it does not surprise me as they also have bronze statues of pedestrians in Pioneer Square with umberellas...Portland's claim to fame use to be its "Oregonian's don't tan, they rust" loggo...from all the rain we get.  It's "OK"...modern Art I suppose but I have an different "favorite" for religion...an old one, if they haven't done it in for lack of rain over the last couple of years, it sets up in the Rose Garden of West Portland off to an end of the Roses in massive display blooming constantly...it is three spires that melt into each other at the bottom with one taller one toward the top, and its placed over an cross with water runs out of the top spire over the other two and into and pool below...under the cross Not much attention is played up to it in the park..its just "there" more or less. I like standing on the cross and placing my hand in the water gently coming down the side of the spires...on an hot afternoon ...and welcoming the sensation of it all. Kind of an "quite" serene moment of an sorts in my life. The lives of our Holy family on earth were not calm ones...they were fighting the problems of living by "example" to us. We can relate to them and thier pain in our lives, and know we are not alone when the world is an struggle for us. That very recongnition is why we hold great "love" in our hearts for them.

As for the city...it likes being different I think at times...more then the sense it makes some days being so. All artsitry is an subject of thought and introspection by the beholder.

Trust you!

But very funny...lol

It kind of reminds me of the Body Worlds exhibits, Diana.  Body Worlds - The Brain is on exhibit in Phoenix right now til the end of May.

The Body Worlds exhibit, that's the one where they use real cadavers isn't it? It's morbidly fascinating! I am not sure I'd want to see it. Lol.