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This is an interesting direction. You have these beautiful sexualized/sensualized men in nature, yet their relationships are both progressive and in pieces. I find this combination of progress and pieces, (particularly pieces that don't actually all fit together), to be especially compelling. One image leads to the next from music to intoxication, but there is discontinuity, fragmentation. Somehow completion is illusive. In addition their is the instability of three in a human relationship, but the stability of three, in a visual or tryptich. I suspect that I'm reading much into this, but its curuious that there's so much room to read into here.
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By the way, what did you mean by "progressive"? Were you referring to the alternative intimate relationship being implied?
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A lot of this was inspired by how I feel about myself, especially the inner division I felt when I still lived in the Northwoods. Up there identity and gender are more rigidly enforced, I feel like there are a few archetypes available for men, whereas in the city there are so many more types of people walking around and more options for how to identify and behave, more social groups to belong to.
So these are three archetypes or masculinities I related to, but that I never felt I completely identified as. They are all close to what I felt, but I don't feel them all at the same time. I have always felt very fragmented, growing up gay in a small town, being progressive, but then moving to the city and here I'm out of place because I am a redneck in some ways, and being masculine in a gay culture that tends to overrepresent the young, thin, urban type, but not completely embracing everything the "bear" culture has to offer either, etc, etc, etc, and around in more circles.
Whether we're talking about gender, sexuality, hobbies, interests, social groups or just culture in general, I always feel out of place and caught between two or more social universes. I'm sure I probably idealize them, and they don't exist to begin with, and in reality everyone feels a bit out of place all the time. But at all times I feel fragmented, but also sort of content with it since I've felt it for so long. I think the three broken men are mostly at peace.
And I did think about the contrast between the visual stability of a triptych vs. the (what I would find to be) hazardous nature of a three-way relationship. I struggled with it a bit, because I know I am suited for the traditional two-person relationship, and I could not emotionally balance a threesome. And the rest of my show was about couples and pairing up. But I decided to keep it this way because it's how I originally invisioned it, and like I said it's more about me than three separate people.
In any case, there were plenty of thoughts running through my head when I did this, I definitely don't think you're reading too much into it.
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hmm thats pretty cool kinda want to see it all put together now though lol
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Don't worry I'll make one image of all three chilling out. It actually started out that way, then I split them up, and then I'll stick 'em back together.
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its a pretty neat idea and i like wonderign whats in the next image over... but it looks cute and sexy so i am thinking the original is nice too
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Hmm. I tried to fit them back together last night, and it looks like while I was working on them individually I had modified them just enough so that it doesn't make sense anymore when they are back together. Like the guitar guy's arm now occupies the same space as the bear guy's hand holding the beer.
Uh... I'll figure something out I guess.
Er, maybe quantum physics can explain it...?
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So cool. I particularly like the far right image.
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