I need to address something in academia that I've noticed... censorship. I can't stand the hypocrisy going on in these spheres about the arts being reflective of the "most high" and ultimate beauty. If that's the case, then why demonize and make the creation deemed filthy, needing alteration and purification? This, for instance, touches on it too:
What a wonderful video! Loved this, good for that principal. She gets it. Free body culture!
on the topic, sharing this:
https://humanconne
It’s a great example of what I'm talking about. I'm not coming for the first video fully, I understand YT will demonetize if you use some words, which... in and of itself is also part of my issue here on free speech, and the embracing of art.
But I got really excited when I saw he was going to use, of all poems, "Howl" by ALLEN GINSBERG with the included Footnote to Howl but sadly, disappointed in this altered version.
I get it needing to be shortened for a lesson video. But, really, how can we actually truly embrace and enrich ourselves and pride ourselves on being conservers of art and history when we keep trying to sensor and purify it? I'm absolutely over the purification of art while also harping on about "Nature" and "God" being in art and all things.
I don't believe in God and yet I do believe that whatever is, if there is something higher, does live fully and entirely in art. The expression of the human life in its most vulnerable, wrenching, “ugly and beautiful” in such a dance of synchronicity, duality, mirroring all, one can’t exist without the other. So, no, it cannot be wrong, it cannot be disgusting or unholy, case in point, THIS POEM.
Stop trying to police what just is. If you believe in God, or something or nothing, it is all present in art, in humans, in animals, it is everywhere and it deserves to be seen and appreciated, fully inspected and respected in its ultimate raw and honest truth, however that comes out, palatable to you or not. It's true form in that it is as it is.
There is no divide. There is no bad or good body, that sentiment extends to art.
