As careless with an image of Christ as he is with his Church. Is he going to try and repair the fissures that come out after the Synod with gaffer tape.
The rest of the reel of tape should be deployed over that extemporising pontifical mouth whenever the press are lurking on aeroplanes looking for a feel-good sound bite.......... but, then again, who am I to judge?
The tape is simply a bit of innvovative 'brutalist' art and design - a meaningful comment on the revolutionary brutalism of the Paul VI ferula and how such a revolutionary muse can apply instant sticky tape solutions to all problems.
Paul VI publicly accepted this portrait in the early 70s -
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The gaffer tape Pope!
ReplyDeleteAs careless with an image of Christ as he is with his Church. Is he going to try and repair the fissures that come out after the Synod with gaffer tape.
After the Synod, Francis will need duck tape:
ReplyDeletehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J2l-F1ElJMc
If it can hold the San Andreas Fault together...
A quick spray of silver paint over the tape and nobody would have noticed the difference!
ReplyDeleteIs this a Catholic Blog?
ReplyDeleteAm I allowed not to like the quasi-Giacometti Jesus figure or is that a standard interpretation?
ReplyDeleteFrayed cassock, broken ferula, he needs looking after better, or maybe it is just the 'lio' that surrounds him
ReplyDeleteMore details about this SCANDAL: http://eponymousflower.blogspot.ca/2015/06/bent-cross-of-paul-vi-is-broken-but.html
ReplyDelete'The Gaffer' takes on yet another meaning
ReplyDeleteThe rest of the reel of tape should be deployed over that extemporising pontifical mouth whenever the press are lurking on aeroplanes looking for a feel-good sound bite.......... but, then again, who am I to judge?
ReplyDeleteThe tape is simply a bit of innvovative 'brutalist' art and design - a meaningful comment on the revolutionary brutalism of the Paul VI ferula and how such a revolutionary muse can apply instant sticky tape solutions to all problems.
ReplyDeletePaul VI publicly accepted this portrait in the early 70s -
http://s1349.photobucket.com/user/nanateam/media/Popes/PAUL6_zpse9ede101.jpg.html
- painted by a man Paul VI had invited to his audiences for over two years. Do you see what I see?
Just testing the new format. Brilliant caption by the way!
ReplyDeleteLouie Verrechio has posted a great article on The Inversion of the Priesthood by Pope Francis.
ReplyDeletenot a man's man. he should carry that like a weapon. not a taped up broken sad thing.
ReplyDeletehe's awful i can't look at him lately.
It could just be for added comfort to present blisters and ulceration?
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