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<blockquote data-quote="Bob Blaylock" data-source="post: 246287" data-attributes="member: 16749"><p>I suppose, in a sense, then, it is “good art”. It did evoke a very strong reaction in me, albeit not the one that I think WUD intended.</p><p></p><p> I'm not sure why I should have this reaction, and others not. Alas, my wife and I have no children of our own, and to my knowledge I've never been close to a situation in which a child was being abused. But that was my reaction , immediately on seeing this image, was that I was looking at a severely-abused child, and it literally made me feel sick to think that anyone would abuse this child to the degree that I imagined. I don't even have any specifics as to what kind of abuse I was imagining; just that somehow, someone had done something very, very bad to this child.</p><p></p><p> My wife was rather badly abused as a child, and I asked her to look at this image and tell me what she thought of my impression. She agreed with my impression, but didn't have nearly the strong reaction that I did.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Bob Blaylock, post: 246287, member: 16749"] I suppose, in a sense, then, it is “good art”. It did evoke a very strong reaction in me, albeit not the one that I think WUD intended. I'm not sure why I should have this reaction, and others not. Alas, my wife and I have no children of our own, and to my knowledge I've never been close to a situation in which a child was being abused. But that was my reaction , immediately on seeing this image, was that I was looking at a severely-abused child, and it literally made me feel sick to think that anyone would abuse this child to the degree that I imagined. I don't even have any specifics as to what kind of abuse I was imagining; just that somehow, someone had done something very, very bad to this child. My wife was rather badly abused as a child, and I asked her to look at this image and tell me what she thought of my impression. She agreed with my impression, but didn't have nearly the strong reaction that I did. [/QUOTE]
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