Pin-Ups As Art

This website began one day many years ago when I was in an art gallery looking at some photographs of Mexico. One of them was a picture of the interior of a cantina; and if you looked hard enough you could see hundreds of pictures of naked women pinned to the wall behind the bar in the background of the photo.

I wondered what such a picture was doing in an art gallery, but one of the women in one of those pictures caught my eye.

She was tall, sexy, and half naked. She wore only a pair of faded, cut-off jeans. Her breasts were big and round and beautiful, and her face was strong and sweet, but what really caught my attention - what hit me like a soft sledgehammer in the face - was her expression: she was calm, poised, and extremely confident, with just the tiniest hint of amusement. (Above is my attempt to re-create that photo.)

I fell crazy in love with her.

Looking at her was something transcendental - like lying in a field looking up at the stars and suddenly seeing "the big picture". She made me aware of something for perhaps the first time. She made me aware of the very real role a woman's psychology plays in making her beautiful. I had fallen in love with the absolute health of this woman's mental attitude - with her fascinating psychological vibrancy - in short, with her mind.

I've been filling in details ever since. This truth, this photo, this woman have remained the unshaken foundation of all my thoughts on female beauty, and in a way, of my whole philosophy of life. They gave me the "cosmic" push I needed to seek out and find a complete understanding of female beauty; they taught me the power of my mind to unravel the mysteries of the universe; and they made me realize the meaning of my life.

They taught me that pinups really do belong in an art gallery after all.