The Body Book: Anatomical Landscapes

In a recent story I wrote about my love of the human body and photographing the up close, detailed shots of body parts. I call them anatomical landscapes -- sometimes they are so up close, so detailed, that the viewer has to stare at them, trying to figure out what they are; othertimes, you can see what they are.

You just have to look at the photos and the body parts with a new eye.

It's not about sexuality or laciviousness - it's only about the body, the muscle, the skin, the shape, the curve, the texture. It's only about art. God's art, the body's art, the individual's art, the photographer's art.

Art can be found everywhere. Anywhere. It is wherever a person looks for it and finds it. It is in the light AND the shadow. It is in the yin and the yang.

Curves and landscapes can be found all over the body - in the simplest of places; places you wouldn't even think to look.

There is masculinity and femininity in each of us; it's fun to find where they live on each body. And the light and the shadow can be caught on either black and white or colour film.

True art requires limitation.