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Week 6: The ideal body: disability and wounding

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Image consisting of a composite of four photographs of classical statues, all nudes, shown in various stances and in various states of repair. Moving from left to right, the photographs are of: a young man standing and looking to the left with his arms gesturing outwards; the torso only of a well-muscled man, clearly the result of damage; a bearded older man and two younger men struggling in the grip of sea serpents; and a young woman with her hair bound up, standing with her right leg bent and looking to the left.