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I was on my way to a meeting in Santa Monica today, and happened to walk by one of my favorite pieces of devotional Art Deco, Our Lady of the Seas in Palisade Park.
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Some people cross themselves as they pass; I reflexively reach for the iPhone.

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there’s an app for that?

She’s mother of Jesus of the Ozarks, aka “Gumby Jesus.”

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christ_of_the_Ozarks

Good ref, Arno, but I don’t think that SHE would ever claim THAT.

But y’know, one of the beauties of Deco and Nouveau is that even the ingenues looks a little despoiled…

Does that look like a giant vibrator from the back?

trenchcoat, I was gonna ask about the batteries.

Looks like a dildo.

Hey, I’m the one going to hell for writing that, not you for reading it!

Yeah, that’s Our Lady of Perpetual Orgasm, right?

“Our Lady of Eternal Ecstasy”.

As for Jesus, it appears the artist had his mama pose, in her flowered sleeveless house dress. All that’s missing are the big patch pockets on the front bulging with a polishing rag and a pair of scissors and of course, her bra exposed due to the sagging arm-holes.

Something to say?