The Art of Body Mutilation

Dictionary definitions are always helpful in making things more clear. The definition of mutilate is: to make imperfect by excising or altering parts. Mutilation is making imperfect. There are a few listed definitions of art. The first is: human effort to imitate, supplement, alter, or counteract the work of nature. The second definition is: the conscious production or arrangement of sounds, colors, forms, movements, or other elements in a manner that affects the sense of …

…reactions will always be there. There will always be uninformed and biased people in all social classes, generations and cultures, and they are the true examples of what is unattractive - incapable of looking beyond what is on the surface and at what lies beneath. Body mutilation is art. It just happens to use the human body as a medium, just as a painter uses a canvas. It should be seen and accepted as such.