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Response to Summer Afternoon (Erotica Aftermath)

from tom meyer (twm@mindspring.com)
She's cropped and out of focus because I wanted to make an erotic image that wasn't an objective rendering of a specific woman's body. I wanted the viewer to have access to the sensual nature of the situation without distracting them, or restricting them with details about a specific individual. To be able to place themselves in that moment, or perhaps remember a similar moment in their own lives, or even allow them to fantasize about that situation with a person in they may actually know. A more clear, whole rendering of my friend would have made it too specifically about us, which in my mind would make it inappropriate to exhibit as art.

Can you tell, I do care about your opinion. I think all artists should care (Too "artsy- fartsy"? Tough). I might not change what I do or think, but how boring it would be to not care... t

(posted 8669 days ago)

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