Re: Charles Cohen's "Buff"

First of all, I don't think this really qualifies as art. I find the whole thing highly distasteful. Yes, it is obscuring something even worse, but it's still bad enough as it is. Anyway, the implications of subtraction:

• Anonymity
• Lack of individuality
• Expendability/replaceability
• Altered or misdirected focus
• Impersonality
• Purity (because of the pure white - perhaps for the idea as a whole, though not for this application)
• Concealment
• Secrecy
• Emptiness
  

The other similar pieces in the Analog section were much more interesting and thought-provoking to me, since they aren't immediately tinged with disgust. They allowed other emotions and ideas to flow more freely.