FULL SPECTRUMS: Thoughts about art, nudity, and pornography

IMAGE:  A reflective nude in a small surreal islet in the Pacific Ocean.

Don:      (looking at the graphic manipulation) You should erase this picture – 
          it has a nude image.

Cindy:    What's wrong with that? Shouldn't we exult in the pure human form?

Bai-Luo:  This could get you into trouble. No all people are so open-minded. To some, 
          any naked flesh is inherently pornographic.

Aiko:     What a shame! The human body – when portrayed with respect – manifests with great beauty.

Cindy:    Different cultures perceive this differently. You might see a woman smiling 
          fearlessly looking at a camera. Others will see moral impropriety.

Don:      Yeah. And why this surrealism? The earth is upside-down . . .

Bai-Luo:  (shrugging) Well, perhaps our views of the world are upside-down . . .


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from _Love Poems: Nonsense from the Heart_   
SUMMARY:   An image of a partly nude woman and commentary on the relationship of art and pornography.
KEYWORDS:  priggishness, cultural relativism, defining pornography, surreal landscape, inverse perception

Author: T Newfields [Nitta Hirou / Huáng Yuèwǔ] (b. 1955) 
1980 in Maui, HI.  2024 in Shizuoka, Japan
Creative Commons License: Attribution. {{CC-BY-4.0}} Granted 
 
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