In 1999, a year after winning the Turner, when he might have been expecting some respectability and establishment ease, the exhibition Sensation: Young British Art in the Saatchi Collection toured to New York's Brooklyn Museum of Art, featuring The Holy Virgin Mary, a vision of a black Virgin
floating in an undulating golden space, her lower half a flowery vagueness, all
around her a constellation of vaginas sampled from porn magazines, with a globe of elephant dung representing her right breast, and two more lumps of dung as rests for the
canvas.