STUFF YOUR STOCKINGS

NOIR Self Portraits,

40's sock-garters
& Winter fuzz.


Wishing for you and yours to find that perfect balance between naughty and nice, this season.

Happy Holidays.

Big Love,

Mikel

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DARQ DREAMZ

A bit late for a Halloween post, but I never needed my favorite holiday as an excuse to dip into the darker dreamier parts of myself.

Any fan can see that my fascination with nature and the occult has been a steady inspiration for many of my works, but the medium of photography and the transient nature of being a queer person is symbiotic when exploring these arcane influences.

It has been a beautiful Autumn in Montreal, and I've been all the more inspired by the vivid contrasts, and the deep shadowy supernatural bite that Fall seems to bring.

So, I have put together, a collection of photos of models and Autumnal nature that I've been working on between the demise of summer into Autumn, inspired by my DARQ DREAMZ (and recent obsession with misspelling everything).

Alongside are some words breifly expressing my thoughts on photography as a supernatural mode of transport, other worldly spirits, and their relationship to my queer identity.

Being a pisces, I'm terribly indulgent when it comes to escaping reality and creating worlds of my own-- Worlds others often want to join me in! With respect to the historical paranormal beginnings of the medium, photography has always felt like the art form that can actualize my relationship with these rather intangible dream worlds. Photography is the medium that allows me to be a medium.

There must also be a correlation between queer people's transient "between worlds" qualities, and their ability to communicate with entities beyond this pre-defined reality.

In Aboriginal American cultures, transgendered people are commonly believed to be chosen by a divine-force as "Two-Spirited", as their ceremonial identity, representing both a male spirit, and a female spirit. Their "between" nature endows them with the power and honor of communicating with the divine, healing, magics and the retrieval of souls.

A little bit of my own folklore, as I am of total Hungarian descent: In Pagan Eastern Europe there were men named Calusari who ritually embodied a third or alternate gender, wearing feminine attire, waxing feminine mannerisms while brandishing a sword to worship their Goddess, Doamna Zinelor, "Mistress of the Fairies". These goddess worshipinning transgendered shamans would heal, cure possession, and commune with the fairies through dance, never allowing their virginity to be lost to a woman, in fear they may lose their powers.

Like ghosts, Fey, or 0ther-worldly Spirits (how you chose to perceive them), the non-static paradoxical freedom of queer peoples truly defy the shape and form of our physical world, redefining our concepts of polarities, body politics, and spirituality.

Some of the photos added to the collection are from a series about a dying breed of incestuous modern witch boys forced to practice their rituals in an over populated decaying city, devoid of nature and solitude.

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MOONLIGHT KNIGHT
PHOTOGRAPHED BY MIKEL MARTON
MODEL REY B.

Through a haze of delirium

doubles the day-light moon,
like a blinding mirage projecting East,
Hails the nomadic White Witch.

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'REVEALED' AT LESLIE LOHMAN GALLERY, NYC

R E V E A L E D The Tradition of Male Homoerotic Art May 12 - May 29, 2010 The Leslie/Lohman Gay Art Foundation 26 Wooster Street, New York, NY 10013 10 pieces of my work (including several unseen self portraits) will be featured alongside corner-stone artists who are recognized for their work with the Male Form, such as Mapplethorpe and Warhol, in the exhibition REVEALED: THE TRADITION OF THE MALE HOMOEROTIC ART, at the Leslie Lohman Gallery. Curated by Robert Diamond. Featuring Jean Cocteau, Charles Demuth, George Platt Lynes, Andy Warhol, Robert Mapplethorpe, and many more eminent artists from the late 19th century to the present day, this exhibition presents a rare and beautiful survey of homoerotic art in history.

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CASTLE IN THE SKY

We sleep in the mornings
We dream of a ship that sails away
A thousand miles away.

SELF PORTRAITS

ODE TO THE CLASSICS PART II

PHOTOS BY MIKEL MARTON

(MODELS: CARLOS, YURIY, ALEXANDRE)

ILLUSTRATIONS BY WILL POGANY

Continuing the Classics: Illustrations by a favorite, Will Pogany-- a full Hungarian fellow, like myself. Pogany's best known works consist of illustrations of classic myths and legends done in the Art Nouveau style.

For those wondering where my former website went; 'toxicboy.net' has been temporarily put to the grave and is germinating towards rebirth as we speak. Stay tuned for the newest incarnation of my site. Exciting new changes, including video interviews with some of my models.

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ODE TO THE CLASSICS

AVORIO
PHOTOGRAPHED BY MIKEL MARTON
MODEL BARRY K.

The great classics of early nude male photographraphy, my most adored turn-of-the-century illustrators, and a fist full of Winter nostalgia has inspired my decision to post my more classically influenced pieces, as well as some works by my favorite illustrators as a homage to an era that has greatly inspired my own creations.

AVORIO is my first homage to this style of early photography. The model who gorgeously embodies my Muse in this series, is a good friend of mine.

Below is a few works from one of my favorite painter/illustrators, German born SASCHA SCHNEIDER. There were a lot of supernatural and homoerotic influences in his works, and he was recognized for his work through many of famous novelist Karl May's publications.




Throughout the next few weeks I will continue posting works of past and present as my ODE TO THE CLASSICS.