Reluctant Nudes negotiates the ambivalence and distance of gay digital culture with the room it creates for instant fantasy, and intimacy. I have the freedom to reimagine these boys that come to my studio just as quickly as they are reimagining themselves. . . appropriating poses from tumblr, classical statues, album covers, physique magazines, bulging dads in briefs in a Sears ad. . . In these moments, there is this potential for real and imagined desires to coexist with these markers of a queer past, reactivating those past gestures and desires that were thwarted and maligned in some capacity or another.
Reluctant Nudes
Edition of 125
6x9 inch offest printed
24 pages
Edition of 125
6x9 inch offest printed
24 pages





