Marisa Papen is an artist whose entire idea of art is to take off her clothes and get photographed around the world.
When she visited Israel, however, she decided to push the envelope - and to pose nude in front of the Western Wall.
She pre-emptively insulted anyone who would dare to be upset:
The Wall of ShamePapen decided to be provocative. But the actual photo reveals more about her than just her body.
First of all, ‘don’t judge a book by its title’… This purely implies the shame you, dear reader, (perhaps) will project on me because I have done something so disrespectful, I should burn in hell. I know my mailbox is about to fill up with threats and angriness again - to all the people typing down their furiosity right now, save your energy. I don’t even open them.
After my escapades in Egypt, I knew that I wanted to push the bounderies of regilion and politics even further. Breaking down the walls that have been build to keep all our wandering souls on this planet somehow under control.
With other words, showing my personal religion in a world where freedom is becoming a very luxurious thing.
The airhead artist wants to compare the Kotel to a wall that traps people - a wall that she can help break down. Which is incredibly vile, since it is a place where one can feel like one is directly speaking to God without any intermediaries.
Notice, however, that the photo was carefully composed so as to only show the Western Wall, not the Dome of the Rock (which would be to the left) or the Al Aqsa Mosque (cropped out of the right.)
Papen and her photographer are careful to only insult Jews. Because they know that if the photo would be a little more expansive and include Muslim holy places, then she wouldn't only get angry emails that she can casually dismiss, but actual death threats.
She is only willing to go so far in pursuit of her "art."