Dictionary definitions are always helpful in making things more clear. The definition of mutilate is: to make imperfect by excising or altering parts. Mutilation is making imperfect. There are a few listed definitions of art. The first is: human effort to imitate, supplement, alter, or counteract the work of nature. The second definition is: the conscious production or arrangement of sounds, colors, forms, movements, or other elements in a manner that affects the sense of …showed first 75 words of 1752 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1752 total…Why did you do something so stupid?” These reactions will always be there. There will always be uninformed and biased people in all social classes, generations and cultures, and they are the true examples of what is unattractive - incapable of looking beyond what is on the surface and at what lies beneath. Body mutilation is art. It just happens to use the human body as a medium, just as a painter uses a canvas.