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"The latest addition to an international sculpture park in an Overland Park, Kansas arboretum&amp;nbsp;might be a cross-cultural gift of goodwill from the Chinese government, but it has the local population seeing red. The work in question is \u201CAccept or Reject\u201D by Chinese sculptor Yu Chang. The odd piece shows a headless, topless, midriff-less, and bottom-less woman snapping a picture of her exposed breasts. Interpreting it as promoting sexting (perhaps logically, given its title) and arguing that it is inappropriate for a family environment, some residents have called for the sculpture\u2019s removal.The park refuses to extract the work, but it has installed an advisory sign warning that some of the sculptures on display feature \u201Cparts of the human body\u201D and may not be appropriate for children. A petition created by mother Jo Anne Hughes hopes to gather the 4,000 signatures necessary to bring the issue before a grand jury investigation.That Yu\u2019s work is provoking a strong reaction is no surprise, but what\u2019s more intriguing is the strange backstory of both the sculpture and the park. Yu is the president of the Sculpture Academy of Guangzhou, and is first on the list of six Chinese sculptors who are contributing to the \u201CChinese-U.S. Sculpture Park\u201D phase of Overland Park\u2019s International Sculpture Park initiative.&amp;nbsp;The project is meant to serve as a reminder of the presence of Chinese immigrants in the United States.Just how Yu\u2019s particular work serves this function is unclear. However, within Yu\u2019s oeuvre, the headless female sculpture isn\u2019t quite so shocking. In another sculpture tinged with wonky Futurism, a dramatically posed, wheelchair-bound figure throws a discus. The figure has neither head nor legs. Yu comments on the piece, \u201CIt represents the feeling of young people nowadays to struggle in conflict, disappointment and solitude. &amp;nbsp;[content:advertisement-center]"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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