The Sun is reporting that Pete Doherty recently spent hours in plaster to make a marble sculpture of himself hanging on a cross just like Jesus.

According to The Sun:

“The ‘disturbing artwork’ will be carved in marble and show Doherty being tortured, surrounded by strips of newspapers — symbolising his crucifixion by the media. Reynolds insists he came up with the idea a long time ago and it has taken three years to come to fruition.Doherty will debut the work at his solo London show on July 12th. the work is meant to symbolize his crucifixion by the media. Doherty’s artist friend, Nick Reyolds, is the one who came up with this so called “brilliant” idea.

The Sun received some behind the scene photos of the sculpting process.

“Unfortunately Pete looks more like Han Solo when he is in his carbon coffin in Jabba’s Palace in Star Wars than Michaelangelo’s David.
The exclusive behind-the-scenes pictures above of Pete’s plaster session were given to me — for a bit of publicity. Er, just a minute. Any slight contradiction here, Mr Doherty?”