THE FIGURE STUDIES
“Our bodies, apart from their brilliant role as drawing exercises, are the temples of our being. Like the bodies of all fauna, they deserve both our study and our appreciation.”
--Robert Genn
Through decades of art history, the image of the classical nude, both male and female, has proven fundamental by having the longest lasting control over artistic ideology in the West. Both thought-provoking and enriching, studying the figure is a means of exploring the human body and its condition. Nudity often reassures us of our humanity: the struggle of birth, carefree youth, the wisdom and tragedies of maturity and the last feeble steps of old age and death. Through it all, having a body is a universal truth and the removal of clothing creates a sense of timelessness and neutrality vital to my work.
The resulting images are beautiful—not because it subscribes to traditional standards of beauty; rather, it accepts the person exactly how they are and is a celebration of our unique existence.
Art, and its involvement, is for everyone.
