Sex Without the People

Drawings, fabric

​Works from this series were featured in the exhibitions Were Not Now, Pretty Limber (Klowden Mann), and The Five Spot (Andrew Shire Gallery).

Hubby on the series:

Subjectively, in photography, film, literature, porn, art criticism, etc, its always been more stimulating to me NOT to have things over-explained, overexposed, over-illustrated. To underscore this idea, I sampled from erotica from different era's/cultures and drew the environment of the sex act, emitting that visual information altogether from the finished image. The garments, shoes, hair and bedding, etc around the act eludes to what's happening—the viewer fills in the blanks. 

Further investigation on the theme has been to transpose the images onto a series of fleece blankets and pillows to bring them back into the context of the bedroom. They also reveal the negative space to underscore that the viewer is the uninvited voyeur, of surveillance, privacy interrupted and secrecy revealed.