Join or die...

ngaio · 30-03-09 04:13:07

A really interesting series of paintings:

From the website:

NOTES ON JOIN OR DIE

In Join Or Die, I paint myself having sex with the Presidents of the United States in chronological order. I am interested in humanizing and demythologizing the Presidents by addressing their public legacies and private lives. The presidency itself is a seemingly immortal and impenetrable institution; by inserting myself in its timeline, I attempt to locate something intimate and mortal. I use this intimacy to subvert authority, but it demands that I make myself vulnerable along with the Presidents. A power lies in rendering these patriarchal figures the possible object of shame, ridicule and desire, but it is a power that is constantly negotiated.

I approach the spectacle of sex and politics with a certain playfulness. It would be easy to let the images slide into territory that's strictly pornographic—the lurid and hardcore, the predictably "controversial." One could also imagine a series preoccupied with wearing its "Fuck the Man" symbolism on its sleeve. But I wish to move beyond these things and make something playful and tender and maybe a little ambiguous, but exuberantly so. This, I feel, is the most humanizing act I can do.

March 2009

aven frey · 30-03-09 06:18:39

I got as far as 'sex with the Presidents of the United states' before I clicked on the link! These are great.

ngaio · 30-03-09 06:21:54

Hahaha! Same thing happened to me, actually.

blissed · 30-03-09 12:55:29

Me too :) president Lincoln is the best tho I couldn't find Bush.

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ngaio · 31-03-09 06:29:15

Lincoln is probably my favourite too.

I'd love to see her with Obama but that's not really out of any personal artistic desires... I simply think Obama is hot. :-/

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