My wife said I shouldn't post this EVER! "people will just think you're insane"

this was painted in Artrage (not on software list)

Now you've seen it here is what I was thinking:

The concept of the perfect body, that is perhaps only attainable through surgery, steroids, unhealthy diets- our obsession with size zero models and photoshopusage as standard practice in all magazine pictures has led to a chang:;

Our "ideals" are increasingly unattainable and unrealistic.

Given that the human body has been the basis of many proportioning systems from da vinci's vitruvian man to le corbusiers modular man. What happens when surgery or gene therapy facilitates an increasingly unrealistic "ideal"?

What new systems might come to be?

Le corbusiers measuring system had to "adjust" the height of the average man so it could fit more comfortably with imperial measurements...


what if more radical changes need to be made?

It seems to me that aesthetics follow a love hate relationship with the strange... we love the "romance of decay", we see the beauty in a starved model in a photograph that we would find repulsive in normal circumstances.

so whilst this picture is at first glance repulsive i find myself draw in to this "mutant" physiology... it becomes attractive.

At least I hope you enjoy the brush strokes!