THE EDITOR, Sir:
EVERYONE IS making such a big deal over the statue in Emanicpation Park.
I really don't understand it. Are we so unexposed to art? Are we so uncomfortable with our own bodies, our own nakedness that we cannot see it mirrored in a form of a statue.
The more fire we bring to this issue of taking it down, the more of a taboo stigma we will give to nakedness, sexuality and the beauty of the naked body interpreted in art form.
As an artist myself, having travelled and visited all major art cities, New York, Florence, Paris and London, especially Florence, with its famous "David",
this huge statue which is of a naked man, is almost revered. Mind you, it is thousands of years old.
I ask that we give the Emancipation statue a chance.
Who knows years from now it may become one of the most revered statues in the world.
Give art its worth. Look with your heart not solely your eyes.
I am, etc.,
KESI GARDNER
jamaicatees@hotmail.com
KINGSTON
Via Go-Jamaica'
