Alison Lapper Pregnant

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“Alison Lapper Pregnant” by Marc Quinn, 2005
Fourth plinth, Trafalgar Square
London, September 2005

“The statue, 11 feet 7 inches of snow-white Carrara marble, shows the naked, eight-and-a-half-month-pregnant figure of 40-year-old Alison Lapper, a single mother who was born with shortened legs and no arms. Ms. Lapper is a friend of the sculptor, Marc Quinn, who has said that Nelson's Column, the focal point of Trafalgar Square, is ‘the epitome of a phallic male moment’ and that he thought ‘the square needed some femininity.’” (In Trafalgar Square, Much Ado About Statuary, The New York Times)

External links: Alison Lapper (Wikipedia)