wall painting in santarcangelo II (by i k o)
so i learnt tonight that bears can give birth during hibernation. now i can’t stop thinking about the awesomeness of bears.
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And, why not accompany such news with a super badass image of a man Joey
Ray Cooks’ “Reconfiguring the constellations in the night sky of my youth” via art review.
My pictures are a sort of diary, i suppose. Mostly they have addressed the issues any western anglo urban gay man would have confronted since the mid eighties. Early on there was the struggle for legitimacy. Sex between consenting men even in private was only decriminalized in 1990 here. My stuff from the early days was angry. Then there was AIDS and everyone knows what chaos, confusion, grief, despair and guilt that caused.
I still make work about what it’s like to be me but the things I find myself talking about in my work aren’t so related to gay politics. They are more about what I’ve learned from my experience. I feel like I have a slant on mortality and fate that my straight friends and my younger gay friends for that matter don’t have. We all face aging, the possibility of death, we all yearn for love, we’re all tricked by the forces that control us. It’s not such a hetero/homo thing for me now. Maybe i’m growing up.
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