Guidelines For Living con Harold Sala

Whether you are into tattoos, comb your hair, wear neatly pressed khakis, a shirt with a message on it, wear a dark business suit, or a skirt one size too small, you are making a statement as to who you are. Jerry Adler, writing for a news magazine, says, “Human flesh has been stretched over giant discs implanted in the earlobe, bones have been compressed into dainty deformities by foot-binding or molded into the bizarre skull shape once favored by certain Pacific Coast Indians, marked by a forehead that slopes backward at the same angle as the nose.  For that matter, bodies have been squeezed by corsets, pumped up by lifting weights, shaved by razors and highlighted by lipstick.” As the curator of a museum wrote, “Everybody does something to their bodies to communicate who they are. Even if just to comb their hair.”