Mother Earth F*cker

“Like Earth, we receive the gift of life through an act of Divine creation. From birth to death the vital force of sexual energy is a primal influence. Profound intimacy and ecstatic pleasure are realized when sexuality is embraced with deep sensitivity and passionate awareness. Understanding the synergistic harmony of love, sex, and spirituality is fundamental to a happy life.”
~ Heather Firth

I recommend looking further into Heather Firth’s work. She’s got a good eye for sexy rocks.

Heather Firth Photography

Keep a keen eye peeled for whether sexy artifacts exist in a synthetic environment such as your neighborhood sidewalk or workplace conference room. If they do, are they sexy? Or just silly and obscene?

Is the ultimate sexual object organic/coincidental or synthetic/intentional?

Christo Rocks - Wrapped Coast, Australia, 1968-1969

Like clothing over a beautiful skinscape, Christo & Jeanne-Claude drape cloth over beautiful landscapes. I might venture to say that their choices of fabrics (such as flamingo pink polypropylene to wrap the islands of Biscayne Bay, or flowing and Romanesque eggshell polypropylene billowing over the Reichstag) are sensual and tantalizing, but tacky and irritating at the same time. The mystery of what hides underneath (animals, sharp things, and crevasses) is exciting in a “I’m-scared-n-don’t-want-to-be-alone” way, but can also be exciting in the “goody-gumdrops-I-got-a-present!” way.

“You see, what is it that we do? We want to create works of art of joy and beauty, which we will build because we believe it will be beautiful. The only way to see it is to build it. Like every artist, every true artist, we create them for us.”
~ Christo

Christo & Jeanne-Claude are very specific – exacting – about how they want their work to be portrayed. Words culled from descriptions of their work on their website include “engineering,” “architecture,” “painting,” and “art.” They do not allude to deeper significance or – stretch – the lewdness of their installations, and I do not know if anyone has. But I think it’s lewd (not that that’s bad). Salon calls Christo’s work “loopy,” then states, “what could be more subversive than revealing by covering up, blotting out details in order to more fully grasp the entirety?”

Nature – nakedness – is way too vast and overwhelming to absorb and comprehend. The absurdity in covering it up is that while we afford ourselves the peace of mind in ignorance, we ignore what really is, and what really is is what we crave, what fulfills us.

Nature and nakedness run together. Without clothing we all look strangely alike, especially being that nakedness is an unknown, uncharted and intimidating. Not only are we scared to look – to seem like we’re staring – but we’re unable to take in subtle detail and messages – substance that sets each object separate from the next but also substance that connects each object.

Conversely, artistic drapings allow us to appreciate what we might take for granted in our lives. The people of Miami took up appreciation for the islands of Biscayne Bay once their outline was highlighted and put in reference to surrounding land masses. Insignificant space became iconical. The thing is, though, it wasn’t insignificant.

Maybe there’s as much skin surface area as there is space in the galaxy. The folding and plating of skin only for subtlety I’m going to trail off here, leaving you to wonder

Were I to have said this in haiku (and maybe I should have), it would have gone like this:

WOOoo..oo..
Gelatinous slops on shore
Only to gain legs


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