Botched Ecce Homo Painting, also known as “Potato Jesus”, refers to the failed restoration of a century-old Spanish devotional fresco, executed by elderly amateur art restorer Cecilia Jiménez. The result of the botched restoration spawned a photoshop meme, in which the ruined painting was edited in to other famous works of art, movie scenes or other memetic images.
I loved the way this turned out. Even better than the original.
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Apparently Potato Jesus has caused a tourist boom in the little village where it's found. They've had to build a new interpretative centre etc to handle the flood of tourists. God works in mysterious ways.
I heard that. The place was in danger of being shut down and that is why the old girl had the freedom she did to fuck things up. Such a great story in the age of the Internet for me. One of my feel good stories.
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