Friday, 27 July 2012
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85. humans and breasts
The following is my self psychoanalysis for for today. It came back to me that when i was a child at school we had craft classes among other subjects. The assignment of the day was to simulate a family of our creation composed of a father, mother and children "at least two i imagine" . These members of this family were to be cut out of old magazines or catalogues from our home and be glued on a cardboard. So i came out with a collage. I must have been working all by myself at home. I showed that finished collage to my craft teacher who rebuffed me saying "we dont want that in here". I remember not understanding why she had said that. So after school i went home and showed my picture to my mother telling her what the teacher had said. My mother looked at my collage and said "well no wonder", without telling me why. I dont know how i managed to figure it out, but i looked at my work and can remember to this day that the women had a deep decolletage but it could have been later that i found that out. It was stored in my mind all that time. What puzzles me still is how would i figure out all by myself without being told why it was the decolletage that made these women react the way they did and not the color for example or something else.
Despite that this happened a long time ago i still see the taboo expressed but differently nowadays regarding breasts. Now breasts are not silenced but they are often humoured from what i can tell from recent TV shows. So from silence we evolved to laughter; i wonder what's next. What is the stage after laughter...I look at my adult drawings and just can tell that the breasts i draw are enormous or at least emphasized in comparison with the bodies they belong to. No doubt all that time i was rebelling and i found that out just recently. My guess is that when things are exaggerated there is a reason for it. The mind wants to compensate for the imbalance it went through. It is not a fixation for breasts i have, but a need to readjust misinterpratation...memories of misinterprations are welcome to be shared...
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Comments (14)
When I'm looking at your great are I always look for the details - texture, all the little shape and the color.
@PrisonerxOfxLove - at least you're not looking for non existant obscenities...
@At_Sixes_And_Sevens - I find you so extremely funny...I'm surprised you never saw the word decolletage with your so vast vocabulary..i hope you'll have the occasion one day to use it in one of your stories...
So let me get this straight they did not want your work b/c the boobs where too big?
My teacher in sculptor class freaked out when I could not get the top of my head back on to the bust after carving it out. She also did not like the idea I put a brain in the head to freak her out :)))...Well I told her this is me on the inside. haha.
Without either the teacher or your mother to explain their reactions to the pictures you chose for your collage, only reacting, how was a child to have known why they found your collage so obviously ("well no wonder") unacceptable ("we don't want that in here")? I suppose the child had to become an adult is my guess as to your figuring it out without being told. The why question still remains in so far as you pretty much figured out the part about which picture produced their reactions but the question why, remains. Instead of being silenced, breasts are now expressed through humor, you observe; which is funny considering when one expresses a breast, milk is often produced (and can produce laughter depending on where it squirts ... or tears if it manages to soil a blouse). In many cases, a baby is often humoured and a breast is humoured by giving it a baby to relieve its need for relief from the swelling. Nevertheless, it's interesting the words collage and decolletage are used in the same piece though they do not appear to have a related root in their etymologies from what I can tell from what my browser enables me to see instantly. One comes from "neck" (the decolletage), the other "glue".
Breasts are a fact of life and women for that matter. Why did the teacher back then tell you to remove the low cut breast showing female from your poster ? Probably because she was suffering from some issues of her own.
I think society has evolved in regards to sexuality. We are more accepting and tolerant, not only of ourselves, but of others sexual orientations and thats a good thing.
@At_Sixes_And_Sevens - You were right. You pointed out to me these women were just slightly exaggerated when i saw them enormous. What insight you have and how tactfully expressed. It makes me think. Some people can read and see after all...
@Mind_of_Eplx - Sometimes teachers would do better in other professions for sure. In my view art has no restriction. At least you allowed yourself to speak your mind that day and hopefully it made your teacher reflex on her limitations for the good of humanity..
@sleekpunk - I love the baby connection. Something to do with going very far and deep why we act the way we do. So the baby would learn to smile becuse of satisfaction from the milk and as a reward for relieving the breast. And you looked for these words:decolletage and collage. The association between neck and glue will come to me by itslef no doubt when i dont think about it...
@catstemplar2 - I like your choice of the word "suffering" in this case. It shows understanding for people's mistakes instead of judging them. And i agree, breasts are a fact of life cuz they give milk first of all and after all..
@JadeMaster2 - As long as i live nobody will get away calling you a pig...Thanks for the present...
You are a sweetheart.
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