ok, i dont know why, maybe because i am in anatomy class and we're touching cadavers...or maybe its because im doing my paper on art in anatomy, either way, its safe to say that dead bodies have been a part of my life recently and ive developed a little bit of an interest in them.

the photos of this guy, joel peter witkin are not for the faint of heart, the squeemish. that part of me was totally killed off a few months ago. the photos, for me, touch on a part of childhood actually -those boyhood fantasies, conjuring up the most greusome or gory image i could think of. did anyone else go through that period...around 3 or 4th grade?

well anyways, thats what i see come to life, so to speak, with these photos. i want to include a link of them on youtube, but im worried some people might freak out (like some of the asian girls in the computer room at ihouse did when they saw what i was looking at) if it pops up.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TA9b1Uuohl0&feature=PlayList&p=2806D065D860BF8C&index=0

So back to the childhood thing...yea. I read a little about him, and i found one quote which was nice, something about being able to find beauty in everything. I would extend that further, by implication, by wondering if beauty necessarily has elements of pleasure in it - meaning if it pleases us, then its beautiful. Can something be beautiful without being pleasing. Even further, can something be beautiful and repulsive at the same time? I dont mean that it is repulsively beautiful, but can we accept that it is repulsive, and then forget it in place of accepting it as purely beautiful.