Daniel Edwards’ Angelina Jolie Park Bench Statue Provides Landmark for Public Breastfeeding
NEW YORK, N.Y. — For World Breastfeeding Week, Phantom-Financial announces the unveiling of a life-size park bench sculpture of Angelina Jolie nude with her twin babies by New York artist Daniel Edwards just minutes from Brad Pitt’s own birthplace in the Oklahoma City Metro area in September before its Fall exhibition in London. “Landmark for Breastfeeding,” inspired by last year’s cover of W magazine featuring Angelina Jolie suckling her baby, depicts a seated nude Jolie double-breastfeeding twins. The tranquil bronze statue demonstrates the “football-hold,” an accepted technique for breastfeeding two babies simultaneously.
In recognition of the global effort to encourage breastfeeding, one twin is depicted as being of African descent. Future castings of the statue will represent other world cultures through variations of the babies’ patina coloring.
“We believe the statue sends a beautiful message by promoting the acceptance of public breastfeeding. Mothers should be encouraged to nurture their babies anywhere,” said Sandy Wilson of Phantom-Financial.
“Hopefully, my sculpture inspires an increase of wet nurses to assist women who have concerns about mastitis, or passing HIV to their infant,” said artist Daniel Edwards in his Connecticut studio where the Jolie statue currently resides.
“La Leche League International and Loretta McCallister have been very helpful,” said project coordinator Cory Allen. “We are applying for approval to put ‘Landmark for Breastfeeding’ on permanent display in a Metro area park.”
The Jolie monument will be unveiled September 11th at MAINSITE Contemporary Art in Norman.
A cast of the sculpture is expected to be auctioned by Sotheby’s October 7th for The New York Academy of Art’s annual Take Home A Nude art auction, after being displayed at Holster Projects in London’s West End.
“Landmark for Breastfeeding,” a short film documenting the project by filmmaker Dave Smith, produced by Vacant Era Films has been posted on YouTube.
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Edwards’s past works of celebrity motherhood include “Monument to Pro-Life,” featuring Britney Spears giving birth on a bearskin rug, and “Octomom: String of Babies.”
For more info, contact Cory Allen at 405-201-3910 or visit www.phantom-financial.com .
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When I view this sculpture I see a Peaceful mother nurturing her children and providing a gift of life-long immunity. Every baby has the right to breastfeed and a mother who provides this gift is contributing to World Health. Daniel Edwards has given the world a glimpse of the peaceful act of breastfeeding.
I would like to clarify some of the statements posted in this article, so that the world is aware of accurate information in regards to the mechanics of breastfeeding.
La Leche League International does NOT support Wet nursing or milk sharing. There are safe ways to obtain breast milk from milk banks who do a full screening of its milk donors.
In addition there women with HIV that are able to breastfeed safely, there is a whole organization dedicated.
Research by Anna Coutsoudis of the Department of Paediatrics and Child Health, University of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa, and her associates has shown infants exclusively breastfed for up to six months had less risk of HIV infection than infants that were formula-fed, and that the greatest risk for mother-to-child transmission of HIV appears to be from mixed feeding, as opposed to exclusive breastfeeding or exclusive artificial feeding (Coutsoudis 2001).
Mastitis is best relieved through frequent nursing by the mother affected along with monitored health care from her provider.
Continued breastfeeding is important during a bout of mastitis because weaning would increase the mother’s chances of developing a breast abscess. An abscess is more complicated to treat, often requiring surgery to drain the infection.
Continued breastfeeding will not be harmful to the infant because the mother is likely to have passed on bacteria from her milk before she experiences symptoms of mastitis (Cantlie, 1988).
Thank you for your consideration,
Loretta McCallister
La Leche League International
(Editors’ note: verified as originating from the LLLI.)