Michelangelo – Analog Artist Digital World

The Broken Woman by Stella Arbeláez Tascón was last exhibited at the UCF Masters Exhibition in the UCF Art Gallery (12400 Aquarius Agora Dr, Orlando, Fl.) titled Haunt. That exhibit was on display until March 7, 2025.

Since that exhibition, The Broken Woman has been stored in the artists studio. At first she stood exposed with her vibrant red heart radiating golden beams inside her shattered shell.

The broken birdcage that hung in place of her head fell and broke further when she was moved to this spot. An old cell phone used to play static, but it had since died. The crotch still held some crisp Benjamin Franklin bills.

Then, the Broken Woman was covered with drop cloths held in place by bull clips. In many ways this visage is just as mysterious as the actual sculpture.The sculpture conveys some hope of escaping the convinces of caged thought, but covered in cloth she feels fully entrapped and enclosed. Any vibrant radiating colors were muffled.

Like Michelangelo‘s David, the head appears large. Since the entire figure is draped it looks like a medieval monk.

Behind the figure is a pantry that holds canned goods, potatoes and large jars of dried beans and other cooking items. The refrigerator has a pink swimming noodle under it to try and keep the robot vacuum cleaner from getting stuck on her daily cleaning duties.

The light switch for the room is also behind the draped figure, and getting to the switch involved a careful reach in just above the sculptures hips while avoiding her left arm.

The shelves are filled with inspiring books about artists of thee past like Leonardo Da Vinci, Botticelli, John Singer Sargent and , so many other amazing artists. Inspiration is always just an arms reach away.

Some of the framed work from the Haunted exhibition are on the walls in a hallway near the bathroom. Like this sculpture they are all also draped. Stella has no need to see the work hanging and on display. They were created for others to see, and they will not be unveiled until they go on exhibit again, or they find a new home.

A Florida principle was forced to resign after a parent complained that her 12 year old was exposed to Michelangelo‘s David which she claims is ‘pornographic.’ The famous sculpture was one of many works of art shown in a talk about renaissance art. Other questionable images included, the Creation of Adam, a Sisteen chapel fresco and Botticelli‘s Birth of Venus.

The principal of Tallahassee Classical School, handed in her resignation after an ultimatum from the school board’s chairman, local media reported. “It saddens me that my time here had to end this way,” she told the Tallahassee Democrat.

In the 1500s, when the Roman Catholic Church deemed nudity as immodest and obscene, metal fig leaves covered the genitals of statues like David. A reproduction of David was made in 1847 for display at the Victoria and Albert museum in England. When Queen Victoria first saw the reproduction of David, she was apparently so shocked by his nudity that a proportionally accurate fig leaf was commissioned to cover the genitalia. The leaf was kept ready any royal visits. If you peeked up from below you could still see what lay below the leaf.

In Florida, parents are fine with infecting their children repeatedly with a deadly pathogen but heaven forbid the child see the human form. No, this story is not an April fools joke.