HARBINGER-3D opened this issue on Aug 17, 2001 ยท 98 posts
HandspanStudios posted Sat, 18 August 2001 at 3:03 AM
Marque. I am all for protecting real children, please understand this. First- I feel that saying naked bodies create crime is the same as making the victim responsible for the crime. When I was raped at the age of 15 it was not because my dress was too tight. Crime is not caused by the corrupting force of nakkedness. Not! I have been a victim of various crimes including the crime of never being touched at all by parents who had suffered this kind of abuse, they took this precaution for my 'safety'. The issue is complicated. I only seek to challenge the idea that my artwork depicting a naked child JUST standing there looking anatomically correct is the same as child pornography. It's not! Also I have never said that renderosity didn't have the right to make this rule, it's a private institution and can make any rule it likes. But anyone who says my art is child pornography is going to get an argument from me.
"Your work is to keep cranking the flywheel that turns the gears
that spin the belt in the engine of belief that keeps you and your
desk in midair."
Annie Dillard