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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CASTLE IN THE SKY

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

SELF PORTRAITS

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.

Pray for Spring

(Self Portraits)

"Winter is on my head, but eternal spring is in my heart."

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.

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X-RATED X-MAS

Keep warm...

CRUDE INTERVIEWS & BOY HEART-BREAK

Last month, I had the interesting opportunity of doing a "sex-chat" style interview with Angelica Le Mihn, Sex-Columnist for NIGHTLIFE Magazine. The name of the article, aptly dubbed: "HUGE, UNCUT WANGS".

NIGHTLIFE is the one-stop for all the arts and scenester activities Montreal has to offer, and it caters to a young psuedo-subversive audience. I didn't quite know what to expect, but I have to say I nearly polished off a bottle of wine and she ended up being a pretty entertaining internet date.

The publication hit the shelves at an awkward time for me, as I just ended a 2 1/2 year relationship with a most lovely boy, Colin (whom I loved very hard), and he is mentioned as my "yummy bf" (and then some) in the article amid all the boy-heart-break.

I'm happy for all the things he and I explored together, and it will take a lot to replace the beauty he added to my life. I wish him the best, and look forward to explore the vastness that my future has to promise.

As for the article, it's not my most eloquent, but it's a good cut-and-paste laugh.

HUGE, UNCUT WANGS:

"In true internet tradition, Angelica LeMinh chats with man-photographing legend Mikel Marton, a man she’s never met, but whose penis she’s already seen."

Read the interview HERE

REMEMBER SUMMER?

It was not so long ago, but summer seems like but a sweet distant memory. Since it's so fucking cold here in Montreal, lets warm up on a little summer reminiscence:

Last August, my series "Android" was displayed in the Summer 08 "Sensual or Sexual?" issue of the Paris-based magazine Pref Mag No. 27.

The photos are accompanied with an article about me, and some of my thoughts on the piece; However, it's in French. I DO know what I was thinking when I was first sketching out this series (as all my series start as illustrations), and the gist is: Technology is addictive. Rapid technological advance is suicide. Eden can be considered as pre-industrial world, the long stillness before the machine, and the like. This was but one of the series I shot along this line, while the others are pending publication.

Android is a robotic boy misinterpreting humanity, as he aspires to it. Here is the full series, with a few that hadn't been published in the magazine. For information on how to acquire my limited edition pieces, please contact my gallery: Envoy, NYC.

Trick or Treat. Give me something good to eat.

Halloween is certainly my favorite Holiday. It's a day where we can celebrate what many of us fear the most, Death.

On Halloween morning (since I was a small boy) I always start the day by leaving out food for the dead, and a funeral lantern lit so that the lost souls may find their way.

For this special occasion, I shall leave you with a few brand new BEEFCAKE inspired SELF PORTRAITS. A mix of 50's porn, and vintage "Beef Cake" erotica.

Not quite my Halloween costume, but almost as baring.

It's raining, and New York calls...

("Rain", an unreleased photo from my series, "Phantom")

It's raining, and cold in Montreal, and I'm drinking a giant bowl of coffee and planning my upcoming trip (and perhaps my future) in NYC.

Perhaps I will be a phantom for Halloween, wear a giant sheet with nothing undearneath.

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