they call me mellow yellow.

Piss Christ is a controversial photograph by American photographer Andres Serrano. It depicts a small plastic crucifix submerged in a glass of the artist's urine.

To say the least, the piece was not well received by the global Catholic community; particularly when it won the Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art's "Awards in the Visual Arts" competition, and when Serrano received $15,000 for the work, part of it from the taxpayer-funded "National Endowment for the Arts."

What I love about this piece is how I had no idea at first glance that the beautiful honey-golden glow surrounding jesus, making him look so soft and almost regal, was pee. I also love the film effect as if the negative was also dipped in pee before it was enlarged, and as if the photo paper may also have been soaked in a pee wash. I find the disgust I felt in this realization immediately led me to feel the artists disgust in religion. When I later found out he had a very strict religious Latino upbringing, the pieces of the entire project fell together in my mind and I could completely picture Serrano putting everything together in his studio and the feelings he must have felt while he was doing it.