File talk:GG04-1995-Born on blood.jpg
The issue is about artistic discretion. How we use the nude figure remains the most essential subject in art by which we reflect upon our lives and our mortality. Our identification to the figure's nakedness serves as a tigger to pathos without which an emotional connection to its meaning would go flat. Otherwise the gratuitous representation of nudity without aesthetic anchorage in support of emotional significance devalues the human image and by consequence demeans us.
Yet a fully integrated work of art is a channel to a broad range of response. As such it may elicit musing on the human condition that includes sexual attraction. Evil, just as beauty, resides in the eye of the beholder; as does respect or distain for the spiritual dimension in our lives. One can't pull threads from the weave or the whole fabric unwinds.
- Richard Rappaport, Robert Lepper - Six Characters in Search, 'Portraits & Passages", www.richard-rappaport.net.
For other images of Born on Blood, The German Girl numbers 1 and 2, She Dreams She Flies, German Girl Sagging, and Night Games photographed with the artist by River Gibeaut at the International Childrens' Art Gallery in Pittsburgh, 2009 - 2010, which also includes those from the installation of Narcissus and The Expulsion from the Garden see:
'A Performance in Photographs' following Narcissus Dancing, the Introduction to "Portraits & Passages", www.richard-rappaport.net.
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