I took several hundred self-portraits with the Polaroid One-Step SX-70 camera in 1978. The artists whose work at the time captivated me were Lucas Samaras, Egon Schiele, and Rudolf Schwarzkogler. To document my life as a 21-year-old queer art punk, I used the Polaroid, multiple journals and performance. I posed, like any good punk, to put you off and to attract you just the same; its all the same.
Thursday, October 15, 2009
I was trying on clothes at the time, lots of them, trying on outfits, see what fits, being trying. Thought I'd try on several at a time.
I didn't like the images and scumbled the emulsion, in the sway of Lucas Samaras and the Samaras Album.
Published by Whitney Museum and Pace Editions in NY, I have been intrigued, influenced and of course humbled by Samaras's self-exploration. The AUTOINTERVIEW, AUTOBIOGRAPHY, and the AUTOPOLOAROID turned me on as budding homo, novice artist, and raging narcissist.
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