If other people are like me, we all possess great imagination.
I am not sure if I invent these images, but I tend to believe that they are based on recollections from my own past. Things that I’ve seen in my youth and that have had some emotional and visual impact on me.
The sight of a beautiful woman removing her top pulled over her head, is one of the sexiest images I could ever have imagined. As a child, I may have curiously peeked through a keyhole at an adult, female member of the family as she was undressing for bed. Possibly, on another occasion, looking at a neighbor from an adjoining balcony, one floor below, stepping out nude for just a moment in the heat of a summer night. In my life I have had several examples of seeing images such as these growing up.
Until I was about six or seven, my mother was quite liberal with her upper-body nudity in my presence. Summers I would sometimes go with her to the public beaches of Haifa (of the 1950s) and, being a child, would change in the ladies’ changing rooms. I do recall that it had been my first experience seeing a vagina. In fact, many. Women were completely free to expose their nudity in the presence of a male child.
Having had so much exposure to nudity at an early age, I sometimes wonder when or how have I become so infatuated with the feminine form. It could not have been due to deprivation. Perhaps it is just an appreciation for beauty. A recognition that feminine beauty is not only a source for male arousal, but also an aesthetic that pays homage to the greatest of creations.
Whatever it is, as an artist, I will continue to seek out expressions of sexuality in reverence to beauty and with the utmost respect for womankind.
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