Thorne opened this issue on Aug 19, 2001 ยท 91 posts
laetia posted Tue, 21 August 2001 at 6:40 PM
I was really very sad to hear this. :-( It was finding Thorneworks on the web that got me interested in Poser and computer art in general. I wish you luck for the future and especially - peace of mind. The magical beings that grew & lived on your website will be sorely missed. I'm mostly sad to see that people have such closed minds that they cannot see past their little noses... What can Faeries possibly have to do with child abuse or pronography, I wonder? They're just virtual creations that live in our hearts & minds, so we choose to give them a human body - did God not create us in his image? Should our creations not ressemble us also? Besides, no matter how young they look, I always thought Faeries were hundreds of years old - then again, maybe I'm just completely loony all together! There is an exhibition here this summer of Picasso's works. It's called "Picasso Erotica". They're beautiful and very insightful works of Art - yet they are also very sexual, of course. Would anyone ever think of calling it pornography? Would anyone label the paintings as "dirty images"? Of course not, Picasso is one of the greatest artists that ever lived! But I do wonder, had he been living now and had his creations been done on a computer and circulating on the Internet - what would they be viewed as?? What would people thik if the paintings were made days ago, instead of years ago? Same goes for any other great painter, sculptor - noone thinks of it as anything but art. So why would they judge computer art differently? Can't great artists of today use computers to create their work? Strange thing about evolution, once you get too evolved you tend to regress a huge deal... Just the other day I was browsing the website of Le Louvre museum in Paris and I came across a wonderful painting by Raphael (right here if you want to see it too: http://www.louvre.fr/francais/collec/peint/inv0602/peint_f.htm) now, this is a madonna with two beautiful babies at her feet - nude babies, might I add. Should this be labelled as child pornography? Of course not!!! But "duplicate" this on your computer, post it on the Internet and some closed-minded uneducated dweeb flames you for showing it off. Please!!!! I'm sure noone even thought of covering children's eyes when they saw paintings by Rubens, many centuries ago - yet now, any little piece of flesh is obscene and can't be seen, the poor things might be offended! They won't be offended if you use it as an opportunity to teach them to love their bodies, to appreciate what a wonderful thing they are -- they probably wouldn't turn out to be anorexic either, but that's something else altogether... Of course, there are people coming to this site looking for pictures of nakes women with big breasts (and other things I don't even want to think about) - probably because some people here are more than happy to give it to them, whatever their motives for doing so is. I guess that's part of the problem.... What really annoys me is that people will suffer because of other's narrow-minds. Why shouldn't we be allowed to render artistic images that envolve nudity? We can draw pictures of roses and birds (are we going to have to put clothes on them too?) but unless we cover it from head to toe, any image of a person envolving nudity automatically falls in the lines of pornography.... Mother Nature greated the greatest work of Art, it's called the Human Body, why should we not be allowed to honor it in our artwork, as so many artists have done since the beginning of time, simply because we have access to a medium that allows for images to be easily available to anyone. That's what bothers them really, it's that what we create can be made avalable to so many people in a matter of seconds... God forbid it should open other people's minds to a new and growing artform! ...Just my 2 cents. Sorry it's taken the lenghts of a novel! (and please excuse any misspellings, I still do not master English 100%)
Caroline (laetia)