fallacies and exaggerations

i didn't go to school today

and i didn't sleep till late last night

it was too hot

and the importance of the work i had been avoiding all day finally sunk in

so i got up and did some reading on Jane Eyre after reading quite a bit of Wuthering Heights

this morning me and brian slept in

and since i don't have studio art anymore [double period today] and since in methods we're just going over practise exams [also a double period] and since we never do any work in standard [and cos we've already done our topic test - 1period today] and since i'm not really enjoying/doing any work in vcd anymore, well there wasn't any point in going to school for that one period anyway

so i stayed home to do some studying [for exams and sacs]

started off with pride and prejudice, but then sparknotes [the site i was using] started to screw up and the pages won't load, so i began reading up on bill henson for Studio art

before doing any reading up on the topic, i'd planned to take the positive perspective and discuss why bill henson's work is art and not any kind of child porn.

but then i started to read into it and found many opinions that claimed the opposite and it started to make sense. for example; 'artists can do whatever they like if they lived on a deserted island, but not if they lived in a respectable community' and 'bill henson has pushed the boudaries and understandably others are pushing back'.

i have been to a bill henson exhibition, and i found nothing close to porn. i admit, a few had a kind of sexual charge to it, but it was a little bit confusing since there was no obvious source. there was a particular series that i liked, 'adrift in the crowd' i think it was. it showed how in a crowd some people stand out and others don't and that it is similar to how we can shine one minute and then be totally invisible the next.

but wat i was saying was that, at this point, i'd figured that there had to be some really scary-child-porn photos out there that i had just not seen. why else was there such a controversy on this subject? so i looked up his photos on some gallery websites.

and didn't find anything

so then i was aggravated

and i was back supporting bill henson

a short while later

i searched bill henson on google images and found a few that were kinda disturbing

but i'm just not sure if it is enough to move my belief in freedom of art.

is bill henson a glorified paedophile? is he a smart publicist seeking infamy through controversy? or is he just an artist doing what artists do?

confused, and sparknotes still won't load, so i think i'll read some more Wuthering Heights, maybe nap

btw, watched another bette davis movie yesterday; Dark Victory. Don't know how Gone With the Wind overtook it.