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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Feature in Summer issue of Pref No. 33

In stores today is the new Summer issue of Paris-based magazine Pref Mag No. 33, featuring a 7-page spread of my series Economerotics (Page 62-69). Accompanying the spread is an article about sex and exhibitionism by Bruce Benderson. Also, for your viewing pleasure, is a photograph of my naked self smelling my ginch for an article about jock-strap whorship.

Each Summer, PREF releases an plastic-enclosed issue which allows frontal nudity to make it to print, and they always ask me to contribute, as I have been happily doing for a couple of years now.

The photographs look great in print, so if you'd like to view the full-series, pick up the magazine in any major magazine store, or online at http://www.prefmag.com/



The visuals from this newer series came to me in a dream. Film Noir, half-naked (literally), business men, in severed suits, boasting a retro style. My subconscious is clearly exhausted from hearing the buzz-word(s) "THE ECONOMY".

For information on how to acquire my limited edition pieces, please contact my gallery: Envoy, NYC.

BELLEPHORON ET PEGASUS

(Self Portraits avec mon velo, Pegasus)

happy birthday to me

Naked, as the day I was Born.

Listening to Japanese Pop.
March 2nd, 2009

A wake-and-bake morning in my birthday suit deserved a little web cam commemoration.

MIKEL and his HOLGA

I used to have a Holga camera when I was 16. I, an angsty teen at the time was unable to be as careful as one should be with a camera made of plastic, had knocked the damn thing into pieces.

Holga is a cheaper, medium format, plastic toy camera appreciated for it's reliably unreliable results. The plastic construction and simple lens creates unique photos often with blurred distorted edges, vignetting, and flares from light leaks. The double exposure option c'est tres bon.

I wanted to play around with this medium again, now that I have a half a clue what I am doing so I bought another this past week and did some test shots with a beautiful young Greek friend of mine, Andoni. The above being one of the results.

For information on how to acquire my limited edition pieces, please contact my gallery: Envoy. NYC

X-RATED X-MAS

Keep warm...

NY ARTS MAGAZINE FEATURE

Check out the article "RIOTING FANTASIES", about myself (alongside self portrait: HE-VENUS) which is featured in the newest November/December issue of NY ARTS Magazine.

Rioting Fantasies

"I have always found erotica to be the most stimulating type of activism. It appeals to every aspect of myself: the artist, the dreamer, the lover, the exhibitionist, and the rebel. As the artist, it only made sense to explore these aspects of my sexuality and myself from both sides of the camera. With responsibility to my vision, through my eyes (and body) I want to express the male body in a challenging, yet sensitive way—giving the viewer a unique opportunity to step inside a stylized version of my own sexual fantasies.... "

Pick up a copy, or read the rest of the article here.