The Oprah Winfrey Burial Mask will debut in Chicago April 24th, near Oprah’s Harpo Studios at GARDENfresh Gallery, courtesy of NYC’s Leo Kesting Gallery.

This is the same artist that created the Britney Spears Giving Birth on a Bearskin Rug sculpture.

“The Oprah Burial Mask depicts for the viewer a celebration of an inner beauty for which we could all aspire,” says gallery director David Kesting of the life-sized hollowed bust. “If we each imagined an object that represented us at our most ideal for all eternity, we might hold ourselves to the highest standards, both morally and spiritually.”

At first glance, I thought the mask was rather cool — then it became something a little more horrifying. I was waiting for the eyes to start shooting flames or something. But wait… that’s not the worst…

I then saw the nude statue below:

Insulting much? I pity the fool who digs this thing up, thinking he’s just found some sort of buried treasure.

source: [popbytes]; [leo kesting]