Prince Harry Sculpted as Dead Earless Soldier
This is really sick, not because it’s Prince Harry, but because the artist has used the likeness of a living individual to represent a dead mass. I certainly wouldn’t want this sculpture to be me.
I suspect the artist, Daniel Edward, is trying to make a political statement here as well as an artistic one. The theory goes… if you make the prone figure a high profile famous person, then people will be more shocked and dismayed than if it were an unknown soldier.
I can’t help, however, but think that this is much less about the tragedy of war than it is about fulfilling some twisted personal agenda. Reportedly, the statue will have its ears removed on sold on Ebay alluding to the al Qaeda threat to do the same to Prince Harry if he were to serve in Iraq.
Real respectful, really… ugh.
"Tasteless."
That’s what one London tabloid called a new piece of art. The statue of a dead Prince Harry is set to go on display at the Trafalgar Hotel in London,
"It’s a bit sick," said Phyl Foley of London. "I am not a big royalist, but for someone who is still alive — I would not endorse it, particularly someone who is still young."But U.S. artist Daniel Edwards said he was just honoring soldiers killed in Iraq.
The sculpture shows the 23-year-old prince laid out, head resting on a Bible and clutching a lock of his mother’s hair, the late Princess Diana.
"Daniel is a very serious artist," said David Kesting, Edward’s gallerist in New York. "We are here to engage our society in a discussion about Iraq," said Kesting. "There are a lot of people who died in Iraq, on the states’ side, from Britain, and Iraqis."
"We have to raise awareness about what is actually happening there, and the shocking value of these deaths."
Harry publicly expressed interest in serving in Iraq after he graduated from the Royal Military Academy at Sandhurst. The Ministry of Defense, however, decided that Harry was a risk and did not send him.
"I have decided today that Prince Harry will not deploy as a troop leader with his squadron," Gen. Sir Richard Dannatt, British army chief of staff, told reporters at the time. "There have been a number of specific threats, some reported, some not reported, which relate directly to Prince Harry as an individual."
The statue depicts Harry without ears, as insurgents threatened to kidnap him and send him back to his grandmother without his ears. The statue’s severed ears will be sold on eBay, according to www.princeharrymemorial.com, a Web site that also features pictures of the statue’s mold.
The prince’s spokespeople refused to comment.
On the streets of London, many of the people ABC News spoke to said they did not particularly like Prince Harry, especially after the media showed pictures of him wearing a swastika, but most were shocked by the idea of the statue.
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1 opinion for Prince Harry Sculpted as Dead Earless Soldier
Jon - The DC Traveler
Oct 9, 2007 at 5:58 am
Political statement? No. Artistic statement? No. Just a poor attempt by a second rate artist to get publicity. Good artists don’t need to shock us.
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