I love this. Technically fine, and unlike some other commenters I find it artistically and aesthetically well made. The disconcerting pose - completely natural in a normal setting as you say, but seemingly contorted and painful in isolation - and the effort I need to make to unravel the image is part of the enjoyment to me. I also enjoy the idea (intentional or not?) of a picture hiding its subject in plain sight as it were; most people find legs and other body parts to be very emotional on an instinctive level but here they're abstracted away and hidden from our instincts. We know what we're looking at but our low-level emotions don't, and I suspect that this conflict is part of why some people find it vaguely distasteful or uncomfortable.
The one thing I perhaps do not like are the tights the model is wearing. They are a bit too patterned for this, I think, and give the shapes structure that they don't really need.
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I love this. Technically fine, and unlike some other commenters I find it artistically and aesthetically well made. The disconcerting pose - completely natural in a normal setting as you say, but seemingly contorted and painful in isolation - and the effort I need to make to unravel the image is part of the enjoyment to me. I also enjoy the idea (intentional or not?) of a picture hiding its subject in plain sight as it were; most people find legs and other body parts to be very emotional on an instinctive level but here they're abstracted away and hidden from our instincts. We know what we're looking at but our low-level emotions don't, and I suspect that this conflict is part of why some people find it vaguely distasteful or uncomfortable.
The one thing I perhaps do not like are the tights the model is wearing. They are a bit too patterned for this, I think, and give the shapes structure that they don't really need.