RE: Visions of Death: Chapter 4 - Contemporary Practice & Conclusions, Bibliography
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Really great insights. Interesting to contemplate and to know into your mind some more. I'll have to watch After. Life sometime... I've been a nudist since birth... But disrupted by perverted shame for a number of years... Shame does have it's place, of course... People out to be ashamed of letting chickens locked into a little space with a foot deep of their own feces, as a very specific example. That makes humans seem like demons... Shame is useful as part of our moral compass... Back in context: I rather resent the equation of nudity with sexualization... And this is something I'm struggling a lot with these days, where I live... For Pete's sake, smiling is sexualized here. Multiple people have told me that I need to curb my nasty habit of smiling at people (when they are men), because they will think I'm trying to "fk" them. Gross. And I mention this because they are the same perversion really. Having never seen the film, I am incredibly curious...I can imagine the power of the vision of the nude Christina lending great and varied significances that would otherwise be potentially impossible to convey. As for your work, I enjoyed "Lingering" very very much. I'll have to watch it a few more times at least. "The Shining Path," I cannot seem to access for some disappointing reason. Death is a great subject and I'll want to return to this thread when I have more phone battery. Ja
Ah yes, the age old debate nudity vs naked. Nude is just the absence of clothing, while Nakedness is more associated with the feeling of shame or perhaps a lack of confidence, or "improperness" of the disrobed human form.
Fundamentally, a body is just a body. I have always been far more interested in the grey matter between someone's ears, inside of their skull. Intellectual pursuits, I find are far more gratifying.
Sadly, these days, owing to advertising, industries that prey upon the body (both male and female) as an object of desire, even the non-naked, non-erotic depictions are being seen increasingly as being sexualised.
Regarding the "The Shining Path" - I do not have the video file for it in my archive, and sadly, it, and two other pieces that made up my final body of work. I would like desperately to revisit them, but they may be lost to multiple moves of hard drive and archives.