CAMOUFLAGING STARK REALITY: Body Politicks
September 30, 2011
Haiku Waves: Liberté
What spirit is so empty and blind, that it cannot recognize the fact that the foot is more noble than the shoe, and skin more beautiful that the garment with which it is clothed?
Michelangelo
Man is the sole animal whose nudity offends his own companions, and the only one who, in his natural actions, withdraws and hides himself from his own kind. ~Montaigne
A Statement About Haiku Waves: Liberté
Cutting to the chase, Haiku Waves: Liberté is a subtle metaphor about isms, institutions, mores, etc controlling the female body on so many levels, but especially her genitalia. Women from all over the world need to be free from these primitive constraints and tyranny on our gender. Simultaneously the body should be accepted for what it is, in any color or form, nothing more or less, without the provincial pretenses and contradictions. Nefertiti
A lot of people refuse to do things because they don’t want to go naked, don’t want to go without guarantee. But that’s what’s got to happen. You go naked until you die.
Nikki Giovanni
