‘Notes on Contemporary Eroticism’ explores the eroticism that is outlined by writer Audre Lorde, ‘as an assertion of the life force of women [rooted in the power of unrecognised or unexpressed emotion]; of that creative energy empowered, the knowledge and use of which we are now reclaiming in our language, our history, our dancing, our loving, our work, our lives’. This is manifested as an exploration of self, the relationship, space, and the familial. Through these explorations, the nude should not be a representation of the naked- rather an indication of closeness. While the presence of windows represents the familial, history is represented through the body. Platonic lust is the mainstay between the self and the familial, space, the friend, the partner, and, principally, itself.
