Nude Angelina Jolie Parkbench Statue Provides Landmark for Public Breastfeeding

NEW YORK, Aug. 4 /PRNewswire/ -- 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 wetnurses 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
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QLcdRL-GKoA

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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*(Photo Caption/Cutline: "Landmark for Breastfeeding" by Daniel Edwards.)

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SOURCE Phantom-Financial

Cory Allen, Project Coordinator, Vacant Era Films, +1-405-201-3910,
cory@vacantera.com; or Daniel Edwards Sculpture Studio +1-860-564-0123