Holy Popsicle by Sebastian Errazuriz
Sebastian Errazuriz has used art to take on an array of issues: New York’s death rate, the Occupy movement, military suicide, children with disabilities, the brutal reign of Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet. Now, the Brooklyn-based artist is taking aim at what he sees as religious extremism.The holy blood popsicles are a comment of the artist on the close relationship between extreme religious fanaticism and violent historic religious blood baths, referring to violent ‘Christian’ organisations such as the Ku Klux Klan.