London's Trafalgar Square is in for some "updates" which, as you know, means tearing down symbols of culture and history that Britain was built upon and replacing it with some monstrosity.
This is indeed one of the temporary exhibits that will occupy the pedestal (or plinth) that used to house two historic Christian leaders.
Tschabalala Self's bronze and blue homage to a metropolitan woman of colour, and Andra Ursuța's resin sculpture of a horse and rider covered in a shroud, were chosen from a shortlist of seven.
A giant sweet potato and colourful ice cream van were among those shortlisted.
Oh, well it could have been a giant sweet potato. I guess that would have been worse. Maybe?
Nah, I think they chose the worst options on purpose.
The ugliness is definitely the point. Is there any black woman who would find this sort of statue flattering?
Maybe Lizzo?
And, of course, beyond the oppressive disgustingness of modern art, you have the fact that these statues are replacing real historical figures.
The platform currently displays Antelope by Samson Kambalu, a bronze resin sculpture depicting a photograph of Baptist preacher and pan-Africanist John Chilembwe and European missionary John Chorley, taken in 1914 in Nyasayland (now Malawi).
Well, these were straight Christian men, so of course they don't deserve any kind of statue! How dare those Christians impose their religion and culture on African nations that were already as pure as the driven snow!
It looks like the new statues may be a form of revenge.
It's a form of something, that's for sure.
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