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    simsa04 (simsa04@gnusocial.net)'s status on Sunday, 18-Jun-2023 23:59:46 JST simsa04 simsa04
    • tinydoctor
    Full or partial nudity appears in a lot of your collages; I noticed this in your various posts on social media as on your blog. But it never occurred to me that it is in itself a topic or why you come up with a specific collage at the first place. To me it serves various functions.

    Sometime it feels like you use nudity simply for the hue, as an element in the composition, to create darker brightness without losing the warmth of the colour.

    Then there is the aspect of contour and plane: straight, harsh lines vs. curved, bend, voluminous surfaces, to create a sense of space, depth, but also movement.

    Then there are topical reasons. Time and time again you return to subjects from the Stone Age and the neolithic period. The Venus of Willendorf, e.g., has appeared repeatedly, and I wonder if it is perhaps her iridescent character of Mother and foetus, that keeps your mind puzzled.

    If I had to guess and give it a name, the use of nudity in your collages has much to do with expressing ambiguity and ambivalence. In that it follows other traditions.

    In the Yoruba religion the Orisha ("demi-god") Yemaya is said to be the Goddess of the Sea. But in fact she is the goddess of the *depth* of the sea. And the depth is not a thing but a *difference*, the changing in-between of surface and below. We usually have names only to name things, not to name differences.

    So perhaps, what you're doing in your collages, is trying to give differences a being of their own.
    In conversation Sunday, 18-Jun-2023 23:59:46 JST from gnusocial.net permalink

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