I’m working on a submission to Queer Cultural Center for a June show during Gay Pride in San Francisco. The name of the show this year is Glitter Bomb – I’ve been looked over before – who knows with curators. What started all this was my studio mate (a straight woman) coming to me with a box of dicks. She had taken the pictures earlier in her career and had done shows with them. She had these left and wondered if I could do something with them. They were taken with a Hasselblad at a massage therapist’s place. Who turns down a box of dicks?
Not one to disappoint I had an idea. This could be something about gay history/money/fetish/status/power/penis size etc. I had done box art based on Mexican icons with blinds if you will. I thought this would work well – a background image and then if you look to one side you see a dick and then the other. I have a whole box of 8×10 images to choose from.
I wanted to make beautiful boxes for these out of recycled materials – moulding from salvage yards. I thought if you make it look good enough they can’t just say it’s porn and discount it. You would appreciate the look on the old lady’s face at my studio when she asked what I was doing. Am I crazy? – I thought this was a cool idea – sex positive and all that. What’s better than a box of dicks? Getting it into a show.
I have to have my backgrounds printed professionally so it will be a few days until I get them. In the mean time on to more boxes. I managed to work out the mechanics of this today. It will have glass over the front, but that comes later.
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