milk and pee

[Diana York Blaine]

A-and of course the representation of Christ in a bodily fluid riffs on
His blood--another abject emanation from the supposedly totalized subject.
You cannot be totalized if you've borders that secrete...milk, too, plays
into this dynamic, as well as suggesting the fundamental mother-child dyad
which Christ both reflects (Madonna and Child) and subordinates (His
Father ultimately supercedes His mother.)  That the passion can be
associated with urine as well as blood perhaps plays on issues of
marginalization--how we hierarchize to generate meaning from abstract
material.  Christ of course championed the marginalized, something Good
Christians tend to conveniently forget.  Finally, the big question
pertains to why this country full of yahoos who eschew art and art museums
(and not because these insititutions are painfully racist, sexist,
classist and homophobic, though they are) can get it up to worry about
something like Piss Christ.  They never would have seen it anyway.  Most
of you probably haven't.  But its presence attests to the heterogeneity of
the self, IMHO, and therefore must be silenced.

Diana