Vesalius_609c.cranial
“Our artists paint our anatomy selectively, and then leave us who look at the actual body scratching our heads wondering where's all the other stuff. Similarly, we tell the stories of the saints of old stripped of their human-ness, and then wonder where today's saints are. Those of old never existed in the idealized manner in which the hagiographers tell of them, any more than the impossible symmetrical perfection of the muscles in the anatomical chart. The saints of today are the broken and imperfect among us who nevertheless identify themselves and "the holy" in the ashes and the dust. They are your dancing grandmas who no longer care what you think, they are your alcoholic fathers broken by beauty and pain, they are in fact you, one layer deep of the mask.”
[Gil Hedley, Integral Anatomy]
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“What I’m after isn’t flexible bodies, but flexible brains. What I’m after is to restore each person to their human dignity. ”
--Moshe Feldenkrais
Vesalius_609c.cranial
“Our artists paint our anatomy selectively, and then leave us who look at the actual body scratching our heads wondering where's all the other stuff. Similarly, we tell the stories of the saints of old stripped of their human-ness, and then wonder where today's saints are. Those of old never existed in the idealized manner in which the hagiographers tell of them, any more than the impossible symmetrical perfection of the muscles in the anatomical chart. The saints of today are the broken and imperfect among us who nevertheless identify themselves and "the holy" in the ashes and the dust. They are your dancing grandmas who no longer care what you think, they are your alcoholic fathers broken by beauty and pain, they are in fact you, one layer deep of the mask.”
[Gil Hedley, Integral Anatomy]
* *
“What I’m after isn’t flexible bodies, but flexible brains. What I’m after is to restore each person to their human dignity. ”
--Moshe Feldenkrais