Man butts heads with town over bare-bottom statue

Forrest Jacobs of Silt is outraged by the sculpture and says he is not the only one.

“It's not just me — there's a lot of people,” Jacobs insisted.“And it's not the sculpture — it's the one part — the naked man climbing the wall.”

Jacobs, who is a plumber, said it was the “crack” of the sculpted figure's buttocks that disturbed him.

He also said that he had spoken with a school teacher who said the kids were disruptive in class because they were busy talking about the nude sculpture.

“Everyone thinks it's not appropriate for that to be showing,” Jacobs said.

He added that a prior rendition of the sculpture before it was built only showed a man on the wall.

“There was no crack involved,” Jacobs insisted.“He just put that in and now it stands out.”

The sculptor, Blaine Peters, who owns Rock Work Unlimited in Rifle, was commissioned by the town of Silt to create the sculpture, but was out of town on Monday and had no idea of the controversy taking place.

“You've got to be kidding,” Peters said when he was told.“What's funny about the whole thing is that the form has no ears, no mouth, no hands and no feet and no one's complained. It's not a man or a woman. It's a human in the rawest form climbing a rock. What's amusing to me is that they don't see it for what it is. They only see what they want to see.”

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The artist calls the climber "a human in the rawest form climbing a rock."

I call the climber "a poor cry for attention".

Simple answer is that the artist isn't good enough to have people like his art on its own merit, so he has to make it naked and make it a controversy.

If the town paid tax dollars for this, I feel sorry for the citizens. And if the town keeps taking down the cloth that people put on it, then next they'll have to deal with sledgehammers.

It's only the guys that are complaining.For Christs sake,somebody glue a dark dust brush between the legs and be done with it....Jeesh

Barney Stinson wrote:

The artist calls the climber "a human in the rawest form climbing a rock."
I call the climber "a poor cry for attention".
Simple answer is that the artist isn't good enough to have people like his art on its own merit, so he has to make it naked and make it a controversy.

The (very significant) problem with this argument is the simple fact that the naked human form has historically ALWAYS been the favorite subject of the world's greatest artists.

What's the whole deal about a naked man rock-climbing anyways ? Sounds kinda dangerous to a man's jewels ...

OK , it has no ears , mouth , hands , or feet but it has a butt crack ?

Sounds like someone had a freaky fettish ....

Jason Lee wrote:

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The (very significant) problem with this argument is the simple fact that the naked human form has historically ALWAYS been the favorite subject of the world's greatest artists.

to correct that...
The simple fact that the naked human male form has historically ALWAYS been the favorite subject of the world's greatest male artists.

its just the homosexuals causing problems.

Smartypantz wrote:

OK , it has no ears , mouth , hands , or feet but it has a butt crack ?
Sounds like someone had a freaky fettish ....

LOL,the stupid things people argue about.I can think of alot more important things that everyone should be more concerned with lol