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The World’s Most Ugly Woman Sculpture
Tom Ball
After seeing the famous Venus sculpture in person, X was determined to create a sculpture of the world’s most ugly woman.
So he traveled the world advertising for very ugly women to be models. To be sure he found some really ugly women. He sculpted the most ugly ones. Finally after years of searching he found one that beat everyone else. I hesitate to describe this creature.
Anyway he mass produced the sculptures of this woman and found many buyers. Also his other ugly sculptures were mass-produced with some people disagreeing, which was the ugliest.
However he was not content to stop there. He set up a school for “artists of the ugly”. This school would teach aspiring young artists about what was ugly and what was not, and they would practice in various mediums. There was painting, photography, architecture, poetry, novels, discordant music and so on. He attracted plenty of students and followers and announced that his school would prove to be a trendsetter of the future.
The world he said is ugly, though our senses are sometimes fooled. For example a girl may appear beautiful but everyone knows women are evil wolves in sheep’s clothing.
And who could deny that life is a tragedy? We are born, we suffer and we die. Very ugly. Tragedy is ugly.
Everything, said X, is ugly. But if you realize that, you can revel in sadistic and masochistic ugliness. Treat everything as ugly art, which you seek to make even uglier. That’s what he said.
