If only it talked and said, “Screw you, Putin.”
A NSFW ceramic doll with a body based on Russian photographer and artist Slava Mogutin and a face inspired by “Edino Fonseca, a notoriously homophobic Brazilian priest and politician who proposed using taxpayers' money to establish clinics to cure gay people from their homosexuality,” is on sale at the Leslie Lohman Art Gallery in New York, according to Mogutin, who writes about it on his blog (NSFW).
The clay figure was created by New York-based Brazilian sculptor Fernando Carpaneda and, according to Mogutin, “is a tribute to the president of The Leslie Lohman Gay Art Foundation, Charles Leslie.”
Mogutin's body was chosen for the doll because of Russian President Vladimir Putin's notorious homophobia.
For those of you wanting an alternative to traditional Russian nesting dolls, the limited-edition Charlie doll is 12-inches (tall!) and $300.
I'VE TURNED INTO A DOLL!!! [slava mogutin] (site NSFW)
The Essential Leslie/Lohman Gay Art Foundation (parts of site also NSFW)
Fernando Carpaneda [sculptor – official site]
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