Let Us Love This Distance - 36x36-homoerotic-sexy-shirtless-swimmer-ocean-beach-gay Collage

This is an original mixed-media artwork consisting of a photograph that has been scanned, manipulated, printed on transparent material and mounted to a cradled panel with paper collage, acrylic paint, epoxy resin, and matte varnish. I often include information printed or handwritten on the back of photos. This particular image was stamped with the number 31. Many of the figures incorporated into the artwork are taken from my extensive collection of one-of-a-kind antique daguerreotypes and mid-century snapshots. Each photograph in the acquisition is chosen because of its ability to simultaneously mirror intimate and universal facets of the human experience. The ambiguous figures often have a familiarity and represent archetypical image of masculinity and the Everyman. For this reason they are dealt with as a kind of self-portrait. Appropriation of these ‘forgotten’ photographs is an essential part of my art making process. Repurposing the images with new content not only builds upon the original history of the photographs, but creates a transcendence of time and a revitalization of the past. I have often expressed that I may not necessarily be the photographer of these relics, but through my artistic interpretation I feel I am their curator.

Collage:Paint on Other

Original:One-of-a-kind Artwork

Size:36 W x 36 H x 2 D in

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