Raising Christazona

No stranger to folk art, but I've never really grasped the aesthetic beauty of a bunch of fast food straw wrappers sculpted with spit by a retired guy in Indiana into an image of Mother Theresa blessing the poor in Calcutta --- HOWEVER, I do give whoever does folk art props for "keeping it real" because traditional art is sometimes less than thrilling.

Welcome to Blottered Art week.

First up:

Alfred Gaynor used to have a specialty: He sodomized women and then
strangled
them to death.
Gaynor was convicted of the rape and murder of
four women in
Springfield, Massachusetts. The crimes occurred during a
three-month killing
spree in 1997-1998 that terrified the town. He is
serving four
consecutive life sentences.
No longer able to pursue his main
interests,
Gaynor is now producing craptacular
prison drawings like this absurd crayon/pencil rendering of a one-legged
cartoon Jesus apparently visiting Arizona.

That picture makes traditional art seem way nuanced, not to mention, ethical. Now you're like, ohmygod, whatever. I'm like, no really. I read Either/Or once. It is the philosophy of the aesthetic VS the ethical life. Okay -- I skimmed it.

But in that picture, Jesus seems entirely out of place.* And the whole idea that capitalism somehow plays a part in this -- I'm not squeamish but c'mon Prison isn't about painting! What's it like an extended vacation? We need to ship our bitches to Turkey, where they lock you up in a cell and you basically have to give blow jobs to big Turkish bald men. And there's no painting! None.

For sale: serial sex killer's crap art (Sploid)

*You were sooo going to say the cactus is out of place but I was like, noooo pretty boy, pretty girl, that man has no room for Jesus, only the desertttt. It's Jesus In Arizona. Man walks into a bar ---