nudes 29 November 2008
The Mammy brought home a variety of nudes while she was an art student. They were mostly female nude studies. She’d festoon the walls with them – I suppose she was ‘confronting her image’ as the late Loughlin so urged. My teenage brothers were MORTIFIED and would only then open the front door a sliver to their friends in case they also saw the ‘art’ our house was draped in…course they might have been keeping it to themselves too – I remain unconvinced that a teenage boy wouldn’t be secretly thrilled that he could observe the naked female form ‘legitimately’. Doesn’t seem to have harmed either of them anyhow. We still refer to the drawings etc as ‘the nudies’. I have a feeling there’s a whole tranch of them in our attic – a lot of the sculptures are in the back garden and I look forward to getting my hands on them in the fullness of time.
