September 29, 2024 3:16pm This conspicuously anti-erotic image presents a plethora of ambiguities. What is the model reaching for? Why are her hands obscured? Is she in a posture of submissiveness, as when someone is holding and weapon and orders her to raise her hands? She seems to be caught in a moment of surprise, vulnerable yet unabashed.Certainly she shows no signs of being embarrassed by her exposed breasts. Perhaps this is a pose connoting acceptance - as if to say, "here I am, and I hide nothing." As Leonard Bernstein, the great musician said, "the quest of art in our time is to search for bigger and better ambiguities."
