I'm not sure that just because someone can hear music.. it says anything at all about their ability to actually HEAR the music.. (Zen)
Art (like truth) communicates on multiple levels and it happens in ways that simply talking, teaching, etc.. can never do.
For instance, being naked is not always about being unclothed. Sometimes it's about being real... or open.. or vulnerable..
In the perfect world... vulnerability is sexy.. (sexiness is not always about sex).
And the title of my blog, "Blue Notes" refers to the blurbs... the words of my spiritual journey... my blog...
But it also refers to the specific musical notes that make the Rock N Roll/Blues tradition unique to any other music in history. Those notes are called "blue notes".
That said... In the metaphor of nudity.... musical notes.. just hearing vibratory sound pass incessantly over the tympanic membrane of my head is a routine mechanical function at best. It's more like dropping clothes for a flash-3-minute-shower on a cold clockwork Monday morning before work. There's no "sexy" in that.. Sometimes with tooth paste (and saliva) running down your face.. you just do what you gotta do.
But hearing the MUSIC.. Blue like it is.. as it swirls real.. lithe and light.. electric like a live-wire in the head... and the bed.
Now... That's like being Naked.
Be Naked!!
I was just musing about nudity in art the other day. I was wondering if the nudity in the statue of David or the Venus di Milo was considered as shocking in it's day as the nudity in the photography of Robert Maplethorpe or Sallie Mann. And I was thinking about that politician who insisted that the breasts be covered on the statues and wondered if anyone in DaVinci's time ever suggested covering up his statues.
ReplyDeleteAs an artist I have used nude models before, and the nudity almost always has a purpose. I am aware of the "shocking" nature of a penis. I know that it will cause people to look twice, and it's what I say in that second glance that takes that image from mere pornography and into the realm of art.
Thanks for your comments Erin. In the next week or so.. I jump into the porn conversation without metaphor... (little metaphor at least). Wont give it up here... but agree.. nakedness is not porn. In fact... I would take a step further and say that whether we like it or not... porn as a defintion has a lot to do with the intention of the artist. Just because it's "shocking" doesn't make it porn... Porn is an exploitation of the human being leading towards a callousness in the viewer of a persons individual humanity. (sorry.. too wordy). When art is made to make people die as individuals... it takes on a porn quality.
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