Sample #1 and sample #22014
Artist statement: Love shack is a series devoted to men’s public toilets and the tension between its two uses: one of mundane necessity and the other of the need for covert and convenient homosexual gratification. By posing as an initiate, I was able to participate in regular observation of instant sex in men’s public toilets.
I extracted samples from twelve subjects to create portraits. These samples come to represent the precarious balance between the public and private self inherent in impersonal sex in public places. Each is plucked out of its porcelain context and scanned, yet together they speak to the ways we negotiate our desires and reveal both the pragmatism, as well as the meticulously choreographed seduction, at play.
Text 1: My height, aggressive, ungrateful. Not a kisser
Text 2: Suit, very beautiful. His third that day. Not a kisser
Also known as Giclee prints or bubble-jet prints, pigment ink-jet prints are generated by computer printers from digital or scanned files using dye-based or pigment-based inks. A series of nozzles spray tiny droplets of ink onto the paper surface in a precise pattern that corresponds to the digital image file. In dye-based prints the ink soaks into the paper, whereas in pigment-based prints the ink rests and dries on top of the paper surface.
Whilst the term is broad, pigment ink-jet prints have come to be associated with prints produced on fine art papers. They are the most versatile and archival method of printing available to photographers today. A wide variety of material on which an image can be printed with such inks are available, including various textures and finishes such as matte photo paper, watercolour paper, cotton canvas or pre-coated canvas.
