From the Full Body Project, by Leonard Nimoy.
This picture is a version of the three graces
It’s a classic pose
Both versions are beautiful, but I much prefer the Full Body Project version because these women are so beautiful and lovely and make me happy. Happy to be queer, happy to be a woman, happy to be fat and to love other fat people.
Every single hater is invited to acquaint themselves with my fists.
leonard nimoy was important to so many people for a lot of reasons, but for me, The Full Body Project will always be top of the list
just one of the most beautiful, tender, respectful portrayals of fat bodies
it helped me move from indifference about my own body to begin to love it
I’m so glad I own a copy of the book, and I feel so lucky that Leonard Nimoy signed it
The most important thing to me about the Full Body Project is that it came about because someone asked him “why are all your models thin?” and instead of getting defensive or making up some answer about aesthetics, Leonard Nimoy stopped and went “wait, why are all my models thin?” and set about exploring that automatic choice within himself through what became the Full Body Project — it wasn’t just about portraying fat bodies beautifully and classically (the images echo famous statues, supermodel photographs, friezes, etc) but also about sharply interrogating himself as an artist as to why he’d had to go out and deliberately learn how to see fat bodies as beautiful, rather than being able to do so automatically as he had with thin bodies.
He was just an astonishingly cool man in so many ways.
Yes this too!
As a creator, as an artist, to take criticism and to give birth to something so good and pure and honest stemmed from it, I have nothing but admiration.
It’s what I want art to hope to be, celebrations of humanity and understanding of the self and choices we make.
It made such a profound difference to me, to see these images of fat people happy and beautiful and taken with an air of reverence and respect.
And through these pictures you see his transformation as an artist as well.
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