Oscar's Last Tchotchke

 

Courtesy of Albertus

And alien tears will fill for him
Pity's long-broken urn,
For his mourners will be outcast men,
And outcasts always mourn.

"The modernist angel depicted as a relief on the tomb was originally complete with male genitals which were broken off and kept as a paperweight by a succession of cemetery keepers; their current whereabouts are unknown. In the summer of 2000, intermedia artist Leon Johnson performed a forty minute ceremony entitled Re-membering Wilde in which a commissioned silver prosthesis was installed to replace the vandalised genitals." Courtesy of Wikipedia

Okay, I can't resist: a Johnson replaced his johnson...how fitting.

Learn something new everyday here in the wilde cyberworld.