New York: How did Paris Hilton end up in a former Brooklyn garage - naked, provocatively posed and seemingly very, very dead?
Of course, it is just a sculpture - one that graphically depicts an autopsy on the jail-bound, socialite celeb for a show warning teens about underage drinking.
The sprawled-out "Hilton" clutches a cocktail glass in one hand, a cell phone in the other as her distressed dog, Tinkerbell, jumps across her bare chest. She and the animal wear matching tiaras.
It is one of several whacked-out works that have gotten attention for artist Daniel Edwards. Last August, Edwards flaunted a busty Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton sculpture at Manhattan's Museum of Sex.
His earlier works - of Ted Williams' severed head and a naked Britney Spears giving birth - stirred up other artistic storms.
In the Hilton exhibit, which opens on Friday at a gallery run by Capla Kesting Fine Art in the Williamsburg neighbourhood, removable "innards" are exhibited on a display stand placed in a sexually suggestive manner next to the "body."
Hilton's spokesman, Elliot Mintz, said he would have no comment on the work.
"Around this time of year, I think of a couple of friends I lost in high school because of drinking and driving," said the artist, dressed in snow white as he stood by the feet of his creation yesterday.
Edwards said he is using this celebrity "as a vehicle for a public-service announcement, to educate teens."
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