Iconoclasm

Today I participated in a little bit of iconoclasm. Don't worry, I have not been swept up in some Reformation-type fervour. I had to vacate a room in the archives and we are using this as an opportunity to deaccession a lot of stuff that we not longer need or should never have kept in the first place. This Sacred Heart statue was unremarkable, in less than ideal condition, and there really is no one who wants this sort of thing . So instead of hanging on to it, I was given permission to remove it from the archives. And what is the proper way of performing this task? Destruction. While smashing things can be fun, and I had no attachment to the statue, I still felt a twinge of guilt when I took the hammer to it. I suppose it is the art historian in me. Or the remnants of a Catholic school education.

I figured I might try something new (well, new for me) and I recorded the process. If everything works here is me destroying the statue, courtesy of youtube:


Just another day in the archives.

rgsc
PS - woo-hoo this is my 100th post. Took me long enough, eh.