Pete Doherty commissioned a sculpture of himself being crucified Jesus-style. Apparently, Pete and his friend artist Nick Reynolds feel Pete is a tortured Messiah, according to The Sun:
The “disturbing artwork” will be carved in marble and show Doherty being tortured, surrounded by strips of newspapers — symbolising his crucifixion by the media.
Reynolds insists he came up with the idea a long time ago and it has taken three years to come to fruition.
The Sun received behind-the-scenes photos of the sculpting process from Pete and the irony wasn’t lost on them:
Unfortunately Pete looks more like Han Solo when he is in his carbon coffin in Jabba’s Palace in Star Wars than Michaelangelo’s David.
The exclusive behind-the-scenes pictures above of Pete’s plaster session were given to me — for a bit of publicity. Er, just a minute. Any slight contradiction here, Mr Doherty?
Whoa, whoa, whoa. Okay, Pete Doherty comparing himself to Jesus is understandable. They’re both imaginary characters. Makes sense. But Pete Doherty as Han Motherfucking Solo?! BLASPHEMY!
If he looks like this he won’t collect much SOULS!!
He’s not Jesus? Shit!! Now I have to tear down the 1st Church of Jesus Disguised as a Junkie, that I built?!?!?!
Wow, so he’s being crucified and there’s a bunch of newspaper clippings around to imply he’s being crucified by the media. Wow, what a subtle, original work. No pathetic attention whore wannabe has ever gone the ‘I’m like jesus because the newspapers make fun of me’ angle. How do these people come up with such brilliant insightful ideas ??? I think I’m gonna commission that same artist to make me something of equal brilliance, a painting of a sad clown maybe, or a painting of G W Bush with ‘terrorist’ written on it.
Now the athiest monkeys will boycott Petey
crucifixion by the media? This douche barely even makes the news.
The best part of being smacked out is that he thinks he looks really good.
do some of these ppl leaving comments actually think they are funny?
Cocaine’s a hell of a drug!