Limit in art? I think Not

My newest photo "X" which is now apart of my 52 weeks project has brung a topic to my attention to talk about. I always thought as an artist there is not a limit in art. You can create whatever you want and no one can really have a say if it is good or not because if it means and symbolizes something to you then it is a good piece. I understand everyone is entitled to there own opinion, I respect that and as an artist if you can't accepts recieving negative feedback along with positive feedback then it is most likely going to be a hard road for you. In my newest photo I wanted to portray a concept revolving around the themes/words such as "Identity", "Findings oneself", "Brave", "Sorrow", "Violated" all of those words went into creating this image. The balloon is to represent, sorrow and violation. The X is to represent a lost soul who is trying to find herself in all that has happened to her. She doesn't feel like herself anymore and wonders if she can ever remember who she is.

Normally when creating a photo after I am done or in the process I always ask one of my close friends or parents even my sister sometimes if its "good" or "okay" what is it missing? Thing's like that. Everytime I create a photo that appears as if there is no shirt on in the photo people always jump at me right away "Where are your clothes?" "Uhm why don't you have a shirt on?" "Your not putting that online right? Because it looks like you have no clothes". Uhm hold up now, In almost every single photo that seems like there isnt a shirt or tank top on trust me there is and for right now always will be. Luckily Im not to bad at cloning and am able to match my skin and camera shadows to the photo which for me is just luck. I just personally think its wrong to dislike a photograph because it appears as if the person doesn't have clothes on or something like that. There is some sort of meaning behind every single photo even if the photographer doesn't know it but people seem to find it hard to look past the point of "Oh my god is she/he wearing a shirt?" "Why don't they have anything on from what I can see?" things like that. It bothers me alittle because art is art. I have seen conceptual images where photographers will have a person with nothing on because that is there plan, there idea of there photo.

So I hope most of us can look past that point and I'm making myself very clear that i ALWAYS have a shirt on in my photo's and most of my photos are shoulders up this was just a bit of an experiment that I hope you guys like. When I get older and am able to buy a new camera I hope to revisit every single concept I have ever created and re-create it and make it better than the last.

But for now here is... "X".