101 People - 100 portraits
During the process of resurrecting romance I tried to remember who were the people I have liked, loved, lusted after; that mixture of people we meet, share life with and lose track of during a long life - family, fantasy, fetish and friend. The start of the process was to trawl through old photographs, looking at people and scanning faces in a crowd, remembering artists, writers, actors and dancers who influenced my life and art - a visual palimpsest, interweaving layers of personal history, events and narratives, creating a tapestry of meaning and memory.
Among the images are lovers, affairs of the heart or maybe just the loins; short term relationships, sexual relationships that grew into long term friendships and faint glimmers, the faded memories of a few relationships, one night stands, that had not been erased completely. and dominating all are passionate long term affairs of the heart and the mind.
Reclamation of the past, like an archaeological dig, turned up solid evidence in the form of these images, triggering memories and a reminder: What the body knows (but may have forgotten).
Among the images are lovers, affairs of the heart or maybe just the loins; short term relationships, sexual relationships that grew into long term friendships and faint glimmers, the faded memories of a few relationships, one night stands, that had not been erased completely. and dominating all are passionate long term affairs of the heart and the mind.
Reclamation of the past, like an archaeological dig, turned up solid evidence in the form of these images, triggering memories and a reminder: What the body knows (but may have forgotten).
