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Feral Brown Girl?

I'm not sure who or what to believe, but the news story I read today says that "[a] 29-year-old dubbed the 'jungle woman' after emerging from the Cambodian wilderness three years ago naked and unable to speak has now fled back into the wild after struggling to adapt to society."  Wow.   Seems like this Cambodian Brown Girl (pictured above) emerged from the [Cambodian] jungle in January of 2007 and has had quite a time adjusting to life outside of the jungle.  Ya think? 
Of course I have no idea if she suffers from mental illness or if she's a real feral child, but I wonder:  Is it humanitarian to try to get someone to adapt to our way of life?  Or is it more humanitarian to let her live the way she was accustomed to living (provided she is safe and doesn't harm others, of course)?  Maybe I'm just sensitive to people (and animals) away from their natural habitat.  Like Sabine Kuegler, who from 7 years old to 17 years old lived with her German linguist parents in the Papuan (New Guinea) jungle living with the Fayu, a Stone Age tribe of naked people with bones through their noses.  She talks about readjusting to life away from the Fayu in her book Child of the Jungle: The True Story of a Girl Caught Between Two Worlds.  I don't know about you, but I think this is some wild stuff worthy of a little thought.  (In fact, here's a Discovery Channel video about a reporter's experience with the Fayu.)

"Chewing in Venice" by Simone Decker

"Chewing in Venice,"an amazing series by Luxembourg artist Simone Decker. Extra-large pieces of chewing-gum are displayed in various places of the lovely town of Venice, Italy.

Chewing in Venice: monumental sculptures of bubble-gum for Sérénissime? One nothing visual attention, a minimum of direction of reality and the aesthetic credit granted to Simone Decker brings which looks at these photographs being included/understood: a small form made with the sticky one and delicious delicacy, like it of mastic regularly in our mouths (2), was photographed on bottom of Venice according to a point of view such as it appears to bar a lane, to run along a frontage, to decorate a campo or to decorate the edges of the Large Channel. Similar photographs constitute an answer to the question that the artist, guest with the 48e Biennale de Venise, had not failed to be posed: how to make a monumental sculpture with few means? By using a cheap material, the chewing gum, and by adopting a camera angle which gives the illusion which sculpture is larger than it is it actually. The sculptures in chewing-gum thus, very temporarily but well really, took seat in Venice; the image that we have under the eyes is not by no means the result of a photomontage. There is in some fraud measurement only on their scale. 
-Michel Gauthier








Thanks to fubiz for the tip