Editor:
While waiting in a doctor’s or dentist’s office, I’ll sometimes browse through a book designed for kids, where typically an artist will draw animals dressed in clothing. People are animals, too, as we all know. Though we typically wear clothes when we’re out and about, we were born naked, and we usually get naked again when we take a bath and so on. Nudity is our natural state. An art exhibit showing folks in that state – in the birthday suits they were born in, altered by time and whatnot into unique and fascinating shapes – is not pornography.
Yes, some adults may see this artistically-rendered nudity as distasteful, inappropriate, and unfit for viewing by kids (who may already have researched via Google anything they felt curious about); but why not just get on with enjoying all the events?
Come to think of it, the “Sensuality” exhibit earlier this year had parents attending with children, and some of that art was quite provocative and eye-catching. In fact, I foolishly almost knocked myself out trying to dodge a prominent body part of one sculpture; yet the only one I heard complaining was me, and I soon regained my dignity and joie de vivre.
Janice Williams, Gibsons
