Strategic Atonement Pitcher     13" X 7" X 10"       Item # CE1040   $200.00            Order Form   

Glazed, white earthenware with the words, "Forgive U.S. our Administration"  (Click on any picture for a larger view.)   

A replica of the ceremonial ewers used in various churches and public places,                           especially in the so-called, red states beginning too late in 2005.

In that year a tragic and gut-wrenching realization began to dawn on voters and upon the politicians for whom they had voted, who until then had consistently refused to let flow even a portion of the thought processes still left to them.  They had started to experience very personally the mind-blowing, body bursting, sadistically blood-letting years of the baby Bush and his handlers.  And they felt bad about their mistake. 

Being for the most part religious people, many church and lay groups alike began to feel a great need for public confession and atonement for this, their one great sin of commission, repeated unwittingly two times. 

Some of the More Moral Mortals* then got together and designed the S.A.P. you see displayed here.  The ceremony decided upon was a simple pouring of cold water over the heads of each person willing to ask his or her fellow, world citizens for forgiveness, and, please to be allowed reinstatement into the society of rational man and womankind.  It was decided that the water should be slightly dirty and just polluted enough to remind each penitent of the terrible thing he/she had done, but not enough to make anyone sick, and nowhere near the level of pollution already heaped upon them by the same administration mentioned above.

The success or failure of the current wave of these atonement ceremonies is of course yet to be determined, but as one reasonably impartial, fairly stereotypical voter noted, “I guess it’s a good thing, but I still don’t see what all the fuss is about.”  

          *See an earlier sculpture called ‘The Moral Embodiment’ for a fuller explanation of the three Mor’s.