Lacy Response

At first reading this I became very lost in what the goal of the author was and what I could actually take from this text. If you take out all the adjectives you pretty much get someone who is being prosecuted for obscenity in art. Which then reminded me of the famous court case Jacobellis vs. Ohio where

"The most famous opinion from Jacobellis, however, was Justice Potter Stewart's concurrence, holding that the Constitution protected all obscenity except 'hard-core pornography.' Stewart wrote, 'I shall not today attempt further to define the kinds of material I understand to be embraced within that shorthand description; and perhaps I could never succeed in intelligibly doing so. But I know it when I see it, and the motion picture involved in this case is not that.' (emphasis added)"

Very similar in many ways. But also I feel the outlook of the author should consider that the reaction to this art piece to be a compliment. I mean you Affected this person so much that they went out of their way to get your art piece taken down.

And due to that more conversation and questions are being risen of the morality of this piece. So all in all I would say the Artist of this piece should be pretty darn proud. Audiences will always have their own opinion and may affect what pieces are shown more than others to the public, but who is to say we can't turn the tables?

Michael Ho