In the eye of the beholder

Here you see the Venus of Cupertino, one of the best birthday presents I have ever received. She is both a lovely sculpture and an iPad charger. She was designed by Scott Eaton and when I first saw pictures of her, I laughed with delight.  Another view of her -- She asks to be touched, her surface is smooth and curved. Like the Venus of Willendorf, she is beautiful. Or look at the paintings and sculptures  of Botero Botero's women are sensual and doing things exuberantly. I have enjoyed reading a lot of Sam Keen's writing. But when I ran across this short piece, I was taken aback by his assumptions about the woman he saw. He could not see her being flirtatious or dancing or enjoying her life, enjoying her fleshy abundance, which is what we see in Venus and in Botero's women. I was just coming out of the men’s room in the San Francisco airport when she waddled toward me. Her two hundred and fifty plus pounds was distributed over her short frame in way that made her appear nearly round, but her loosely draped, dappled paisley silk lent a hint of elegance to her movement. All by herself she was a parade of mammoth and grotesque proportions.As she approached nearer I could see that her eyes were focused on something just in back of me. I turned to see a slim, classically...
Source: Jung At Heart - Category: Psychiatrists and Psychologists Source Type: blogs
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