It’s not what you look at that matters. It’s what you see.
It takes profound imagination and original mind to see beyond the theatrical, to understand deeper meaning of artistic work. Although these images depict sexual situations and explore the beauty, rawness, and humor that sexuality entails – an act of standing naked in spirit, as well as in body, and requiring no shelter of herd which others seek to be safe from ridicule is way more than that – it is response to one’s highest values – and can be nothing else.
Nakedness is threatening and intimidating these days, as well in mind as body. Sadly, many are stuck with the wasteland of conventional and know nothing except the thick lava of habit and repetition. They prefer to stay close to the herd where they feel comfortable, avoiding any chance for being different in thought, feeling or action. So attached to their masks they have forgotten how to play and how to love.
To me, nakedness reveals, reminds us of our long forgotten innocence and pulls us out of the hopeless swamp of the appropriate, the careful, the proper. I hope to encourage others to explore the extra ordinary freedom to do the different and often seemingly unnatural, the freedom that is the most salient feature of human nature.
Goran Mikic
