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.
Monday, August 5, 2013
Two pics that Debora Iyall took of me on the floor of Christine "Teen" Anthony's apartment. In the second pic, the images that I took of Debora are up in the right corner. The Polaroids were taken in early 1978, not long after Debora and I met on the San Francisco Muni bus due to her interest in my at-that-time salmon hair color. I recall that Debora asked about how to go 'bout finding apartments in the City, as she was just moving to SF. I mentioned the one place I relied on, the student wallboard at the San Francisco Art Institute. "That's where I'm going, too!," she screamed, and so began Debora's role as muse and friend.
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