ONLINE EXHIBIT OF PRIVATE PHOTOGRAPHY
Self-Portrait. “Spazi” Installation at Debauchers: Art Arouse by Sexuality exhibit. Aria Studios et Galerie - Montréal 2010
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For the launching of The Absolute Creative Space and LAT Digital Space member sites, I’m working on a private installation and a live-showing of photographs from my private collections - mostly self-portraits - never been shown before. More information to come.
BRAINSTORMING NOTES
August 19th , 2023
During Becoming a Rose - a virtual play I devised for The Hollywood Fringe Festival 2021 - I created a scene called my “Secret Sacred Private Photo Sessions” in which I talked about these photo sessions I often did/do just to recharge myself and - as I mentioned in the play - to remind myself I still am a sexually relevant individual. Showing the process and some of the photos taken during these shoots was essential to the play - an honest and undiluted artist’s exposé - and after the play, it became clear to me that I could not run for cover that - using the symbolism from the play - once a rose I could not close back into a bloom.
The Secret Sacred Private Photo Sessions mentioned in the play became what I now call “Creative Energy Workouts” and the work created during the current and upcoming sessions will be available for viewing in The Lightbox and The Bare Canvas of this site but, how about photos and videos from way back when I started doing these private photo sessions? There are very many old photographs I would like to share with those of you who are interested so I thought that a live virtual installation and performance would be the best way to do this.
SENSETORMING NOTES
September 15th, 2023
The photograph above was taken in my Montréal studio during a collective exhibit and installation called “Debauch” Art Aroused by Sexuality”. This was a live-work studio so I literally slept inside this installation for a couple of weeks. One night, after the other exhibiting artists had gone, I set up my camera and tried to take in the energy of the place. The next day, besides several photographs, I had completed the paper installation you can see in the above photo.
I remember the feeling of being alone in that large studio surrounded not only by my work but that of other artists. I recall being very cold - the winter was setting in and the heating system was not sufficient for the space - and at the same time overwhelmed by many mixed emotions. Letting myself be “aroused by art” seemed the only way not only to transcend and transmute the overpowering energy into creative energy but also, to stop shivering from the cold.
Just like showing some of the photos I took that night “out of context” would be unfair to the value of the work, I believe that showing most of my photos from past sessions “outside” the “sacred”, “private” space where they were created would take the intimacy and honesty shown in those photos from them.
