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.
Sunday, March 13, 2011
Stand Tall 'Cause You're An Art Student
The billboard paper-background series is early October, whereas the red t-shirt Polaroid is from a series shot in two packs on the day of a performance, described in an earlier post, at which I attempted to capture an image of my falling from a skateboard. The red t-shirt series resulted in about eight shots that remain, playing with the motif of 'tying off' and intravenous tubing, imitating images from Actions in the mid-sixties by Rudolf Schwarzkogler.
October 1978 "Nails in wall under board, similar to bondage wall, to hand ropes, objects for props for photos"
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