You can bet this clown is subsidized by Her Majesty’s government:
ONE of Scotland’s most celebrated artists has unveiled plans to set faces of Jesus Christ and the Devil ablaze during this year’s Edinburgh Festival.
David Mach has been spending months making two busts out of matchsticks which will be set alight on the street outside the City Art Centre, Edinburgh, which is hosting his religious-themed exhibition.
The Fife-born artist also confirmed plans to move his entire London studio to a floor of the centre so visitors can watch him and his staff complete his work.
Mach, best known in Scotland for his Big Heids sculptures on the M8, will also be unveiling four giant crucifix figures made out of coathangers, as well as more than 70 “cinematic” collages inspired by the Bible. He says he wants to use religious themes to “expose the hypocrisies of the contemporary world”.
And I liked this example of straw-man even-handedness:
“We don’t really need to ask anyone’s permission, we can just burn them outside. I think it is fair enough to burn the head of Jesus if you’re going to do the same with the Devil.”
Uh, if he’s “going to do the same,” there’s a seventh-century historical figure who might be a more appropriate object of his pyrotechnics.