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By - AKMuckraker
February 18th, 2012


~Photo by artist Jim Dault


Wasilla, in its seemingly never-ending quest to earn the derision and eye-rolling of the nation, has a new offering in the headlines this week. It has to do with a piece of artwork that currently sits outside Wasilla High School, the alma mater of our former ex-half governor, Sarah Palin and her ex-half-First Dude, Todd. In an homage to the school team, the Wasilla Warriors, the piece by artists Jim Dault and Shala Dobson was commissioned by the Percent for Art program to the tune of $100,000. It is titled “The Warrior Within” and features a pair of shields – one bronze with a hand, and one aluminum with a flame, which glow from within the large stone form.

The problem is that the students and parents of Wasilla find the statue offensive. Why? Well, it’s because the shields, surrounded by feathers reminds them of…um… it kind of looks like … (whispers)… female genitalia. Yes, this is what the population of Wasilla sees, and has therefore in horror, covered it up with a tarp before it could do any damage to young impressionable minds, and the parents thereof.

Despite the fact that everyone in Wasilla was born to someone with the above mentioned anatomy, and most entered the world through that self same portal, we can clearly not have anything to do with anything that remotely resembles it.

According to the artists’ description:

“Emerging from the powerful stone form are two warrior shields encircled by glowing feathers,” the description says, adding the art is a monument to the warrior spirit. “The bronze shield has a hand impression showing ‘good deeds.’ The aluminum shield has a flame symbol representing the ‘spark of inspiration.’ The stone form represents the strong material from which a warrior is made.”

Yup, it’s a hoohoo alright.

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