Kate Moss declared a Goddess and cast in gold
2 10 2008Today British sculptor Marc Quinn revealed the largest gold statue produced since ancient Egyptian times. Who is the muse for this €1.9million (almost $2.7million) sculpture??? None other than the UK’s most famous model, Kate Moss! Check it out…doesn’t it look as if she’s got very long fingers! I wonder if this is to scale??
Siren by Marc Quinn
Marc Quinn refers to Moss as an “icon of contemporary beauty”…an “Aphrodite of our times”. Sheesh! In Greek mythology Aphrodite was the Goddess of love, beauty and sexual rapture.
Hmmm, Kate Moss…a Goddess…pull the other one! She was described by former newspaper editor and “America’s got Talent” judge, Piers Morgan as a “drunken, foul-mouthed, ill-mannered, paranoid Croydon girl with a cocaine-desecrated hooter and spots.” Come on Piers- tell us how you really feel!
An ‘alleged’ cocaine addict, Moss has frequently attracted unwanted press attention, culminating in a drug scandal in 2005 when British tabloid, the Daily Mirror, printed photos that seemed to show our Goddess snorting cocaine. She was subsequently dropped from several high profile modeling contracts (although she has since made one hell of a comeback!)
So does she sound like a Goddess to you? The only comparison to Aphrodite I can see is that Kate has a trail of high profile relationships behind her…so clearly “sexual rapture” is no problem to her. I don’t think she’s a stunning beauty either. Surely there are better “icons of contemporary beauty”…strong, beautiful women who deserve to be immortalised in 50Kg of gold?
Any suggestions?
The sculpture, entitled ‘Siren’ will be on display at The British Museum exhibit “Statuephilia“.
She’d be good for, say, a statue memorializing a genocide, but girlfriend is too skinny to be a goddess and doesn’t look like she has the energy to be sexual.
Ha! She’s built her career around being a waif but I agree, she doesn’t exactly ooze sex kitten!