Ways of Seeing

To be naked is to be without disguise. To be on display is to have the surface of one’s own skin, the hairs of one’s own body, turned into a disguise which, in that situation, can never be discarded. The nude is condemned to never being naked. Nudity is a form of dress. - John Berger, Ways of Seeing {Amedeo Modigliani (Italian 1884-1920) - Nude Sitting on a Divan (La Belle Romaine), c.1917}