100 men I never met
From 2003- 2005, I was working from images I found on a website where men posted intimate pictures of themselves. These images had no purpose but for men to expose themselves, without a promise of sexual fulfilment. This website later developed into no-strings-attached (N.S.A.) and dating sites. This series captures a unique phenomenon that existed at the time, when these sorts of images were new online and the ‘selfie’ hadn't become mainstream. The representation of these images in paint, I hope, reveals something about the act of exposing one’s vulnerabilities and being intimate publicly. 100 of these paintings were shown with 10 men I met last summer underlining the differences of trying to know someone 3 dimensionally as opposed to 2 dimensionally.
