(young)Blood Painting

The way modern men interact with each other, to get and give pleasure, is one subject of interest. Some might think that the images I paint or sculpt are my sexual "hobbies". What difference would that make? I love to (try to) step into someone else's shoes, for the time I work on a piece imagine and emotionally respond to the subject I work on. I hope never to fall into a personal style of work that, to me, would mean to reduce all subjects I address to one way of looking at them. A violent scene of wrestlers could be delicately drawn in pencil or roughly cut in stone. The feeling of looking at those results would certainly be different, I'm certain you'd agree. For this painting I chose the image of a young man (realistically painted but the brush strokes are "young, unfinished in some places"). Young men like to experiment in sex, try new things, discover what they like or not. The face of my fellow here is pumped with the blood of excitement but I tried to render a look on his face that says he's waiting to see what the man who tied him up is going to do. "I give you my trust, my body, you're in charge, what's your move?" - this, put into words, was the line in my head when I started composing and working on this painting.