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Flower Powdered

How one art installation is single-handedly bringing about the end of the world

By Nick Loulouthi, Art Critic, Florida Sun

I’m not prone to exaggeration, so when I say that the "Blooming Obscenity" will bring about the end of all that we hold dear, you know I’m telling the truth. Never before have so many contentious and polarizing artistic themes been layered together in one show like a wedding cake. A wedding cake where the the cake is made up of disturbing ideas and where the frosting is also disturbing ideas (also, the cake is vegan!).

First of all, I like art. I like art that makes me think. But not too much. And I don’t want to have to consider that my opinions are wrong. If art is challenging me in any way, it’s not something I can recommend to others. It should make me think…that I am right!

Sapphire Servellon does not think that I am right. She does not respect my self-reliance, which can come across as a lack of empathy for anyone who doesn’t look like me. She certainly does not make me feel good about all the important causes that I take up such as banning books that make me confront my deep-seated biases.

Before you jump to conclusions, I’m no prude. Like everyone, I have sent images of my peduncle, and even one or two of my stamen, to others. Many of those others, if not all of them, didn’t even ask for those images. But that’s how real art works. It’s unsolicited and accompanied by some drunken texting at 3am.

You may also be wondering how I even became an art critic when I obviously have a very narrow view of what art should be (all Norman Rockwell and statues with boobs). That’s a topic of conversation between me and my dad, who owns this paper.

In conclusion, do not, and I can’t emphasize this enough, DO NOT go and visit "Blooming Obscenity" by Sapphire Servellon.

I took my daughter to this gallery over the weekend to see Sapphire Servellon’s Blooming Obscenity, and was astounded that a gallery of this reputation would allow such a vagrant display of our culture. This exhibition attacks the very core of our democracy and our rights as flower people and is a disgusting display of liberal propaganda. My daughter loved it and I grounded her—DO NOT LET YOUR CHILDREN SEE THIS DISPLAY!!!!!!!!

Sapphire Servellon’s Blooming Obscenity, which opens this weekend, is an ostentatious and vulgar display of homoerotic nonsense which plagues our culture to its very core. The art, which depicts drawings of our flower bodies and minds in poses, is scandalous and should not be shown in a society that is as pure and just as ours. To show it to children is reprehensible. The art, furthermore, is childlike in its appearance and I truly believe that my eight year old child, should they journey down this path of sin and destitute behavior (which they never would, as I have raised them right), could create something more profound and enthralling. To call this art is a sin to the masters, especially the greats who have captured our gods and our greatest achievements. I must warn any members of the public from engaging with this heinous display of the erotic and should your eyes see this obscene display, run to your nearest house of worship and beg for forgiveness.