An inescapable fact of Mediterranean summer life is the unadorned, human body. Whether it is the heat, or the flamboyant spirit in the Mediterranean character or a culture imbued of the early Greeks and Romans, it is inescapably present: the human form, pressed into the sand, cooking and bathing under the hot sun, exposed, unashamed. In a way the body melts into the sand and scalloped canopies. In another way, stained by the sun, it stands out, a proud flower of the godesses.