These
women are bodies only in a particular perspective
which turns the viewer into a disappointed voyeur
or a judge. The risk is, of course, that if he expresses
his discomfort or disgust, he might be asked what
appearance he offers to the world as far as beauty
or ugliness are concerned, especially if he is naked.
I imagine that our judge would reply with the voice
of outraged innocence that he would never lower himself
so far as to pose in the nude. But then, he is forgetting
the image he shows to others in the intimacy of sex,
for example, on beaches or elsewhere. Being naked
is always a symbolic equivalent to being killed. It
therefore requires to be recognized as an act of courage.
The same thing goes for artists who expose themselves
through the angle they choose to address their subject.
Aesthetics are always ethics at work. The voyeur takes
no risk, apart from judging the other only from his
appearance. But generally, he is spared any comments
from others since he stands in the shadows, where
courage has no place. Better then to say nothing and
to see in those women a mirror of what we are.