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bionic-penis · 6 months ago

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yapping abt the body through the lens of art n shit

the importance we place on the physicality of others and our unwillingness to reconcile with the massive similarities from body to body will never fail to fascinate and frustrate me. our similarities are inherent and impossible to remove without jeapordising the body as a vessel. pisses me off. it extends past the idea of bleeding red. it's in our bones and flesh. whats in my pants? meat. bones. sinew. muscle. same as yours. and this incessant need to divide the body via penis or vulva, especially when looking at anatomy books for artists. especially when we operate at the skeletal or even muscular level. "male" and "female" are nearly obsolete when we get so deep as to investigate the ligaments. wider hips? more fat? stronger muscles? this is not inherent. this is consequential. to paint someone with a vulva versus to paint someone with a penis is not a matter of absolute knowledge. it is a matter of a subject in front of you and your vision as an artist, subjective.

anyway. think its ridiculous that theres still a lot of drawing tutorials that focus on the false dichotomy of a male and female body when there's more interesting ways to divide the body. not only that, but it promotes bad drawing practice to insist that men appear this way while women appear that way. it is a hindrance at best and sexist at worst.

it's also just fun to contemplate on the concept of the body, it's existence as an ever-changing vessel and form, it's ubiquity within our lives and within art. to exist is to possess a body. to have a body is to have existed in a real, culpable, physical way. it is vital. it is terrible. it's endlessly fascinating in all of it's iterations. in a way, to possess a body and to live is to participate in the destruction of the body. it is life that wears it down. but it is also life that allows it to exist.

so it's a very interesting topic. hopefully i can expand on these ideas and trains of thought with my next body of work.

#rambles #truly lives up to that tag this time lol #started yappin n it got too long oops #this is all stuff that keeps me coming back to the body #specifically the body exposed (sexually. emotionally. physically)#like i said it's ubiquitous. its everywhere. and everyone is going to have different thoughts on their body and on everyone elses #the trauma of living. not in the psychological sense but rather the physical sense.#not in the medical sense. but in the way that growing up changes you forever #and your body will never be the same. it cannot go back.#anyway im yapping again none of this is supposed to be advice or anything concrete #imagine we are sitting on the steps of the porch on a chilled summer night #or on the swings in a darkened park. all the kids gone home for the night

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