Nude Eve riles Pilot Point residents
What is it about nudity in art that leaves some people frothing at the mouth? Of course, I haven't actually seen a picture of this mural, but from the reaction you'd think that the artist and the gallery owner had been accused of molesting children.
PILOT POINT -- It's not what's inside Wes Miller's art gallery that has some residents of this North Texas town upset -- it's what's painted outside.
Miller said he told an artist not to paint anything on the building that would get him in trouble. She painted a nude Eve on the side of his downtown gallery.
But Miller had approved the design and even helped local artist Justine Wollaston paint the mural.
"I don't see anything wrong with it," he said.
However, Pilot Point police disagreed. Sgt. James Edland delivered a written notice to Miller this week that the artwork violates Texas' law against distributing "harmful material" to a minor. Police gave Miller until Aug. 20 to change the artwork or face criminal charges.
"We haven't filed any charges," Edland told the Denton Record-Chronicle in Friday's editions. "We've just had some complaints."....
Miller said he and the artist have discussed how to change the mural. One of the ideas was a white stripe across the breasts with the black letters "CENSORED."
Wollaston, a professional artist for about 10 years, met Miller through the city's Main Street organization. She said the mural depicts her interpretation of Eve at the moment she made the moral choice to partake of the apple and that only a few people had any problem with it.
But City Council member Jay Melugin said the mural was disgusting.
"I just don't like my children seeing it," he said.
Jeez, people; get over yourselves....
