Is it the subject or the media that makes this butter sculpture so...off? Since I've never met the subject, it's hard to say, but Ms. VanderKool's butter rendering had my stomach doing flippies when I first saw it. It's as if a David Lynch town came alive, held a state fair and carved Laura Palmer out of a buttery spread. -shudder-What I found was Minnesotan's take great pride in their butter sculpture. When I was in Minneapolis I asked people about it and they all smiled and spoke in a manner which said "we're not ashamed of our ridiculous sculpture." Then I spoke to some Minnesota ex-patriots and they did the same thing.
Weird. On several levels.
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