Johan de DF

Why a young man with such clearly attractive attributes should need to advertise them in this manner I can only guess. Whether or not his name is truly Johan I cannot say. I simply love these pictures.

El Dios Neptuno

The first time I saw photos of this young man with a remarkably deformed cockhead and a perfectly conditioned body, he presented himself on a Mexican exhibitionist site as "Neptuno." He has used numerous other pseudonyms since then. He's one of these self-presenters who take great care in their presentations. His pictures can be found on both straight and queer sites. Recently he has been using the name "Amadeo" and revealed his patria as Venezuela. I doubt it's his real name, but I do believe that he is a god's beloved.

Anna In Hollywood

These are some of the illustrations for a long story I wrote. The first version of Anna In Hollywood was printed in 1990. Since then there have been several revisions. The last few have included these collages and many others not pictured. So far I've published three volumes. Right now I'm at work on Volume Four.

The Exploding Automobile

This series of images of an exploding car is derived from a scene in Luis Buñuel's That Obscure Object of Desire. If I remember correctly, the vehicle belongs to an ambassador and the terrorist group responsible is The Army of the Infant Jesus.

My Grandfather's Land Camera

The image above was taken with my grandfather's Land Camera when I was almost six years old. The nine year old with the Fess Parker sweat shirt was my older brother, Curt. The girl whose head appears between us, just above the edge of the table is my sister, Karen, who was then nearly three.

When I bought a Land Camera, I was pleased to find that it was the same make as my grandfather's model. I'm afraid I didn't have much more luck with it when making the pictures below then he did in the example above.

Surveillance

These little watercolor drawings were made for a show at Printed Matter, one of the holiday time Giftland shows curated by Max Schumann. The theme was "Surveillance." I believe these pieces bear some relevance to this subject, which remains a kind of gravitational center for various concerns, both personal and popular.

Walter's Muses

Since I showed those paintings by Thomas Lawson yesterday, I thought it only fitting that I present a few fairly recent paintings on paper by Walter Robinson. These were made around the time of the Nincompatibles show he did with Richard Hell and Brigitte Engler. I was afraid I wouldn't get to see this show, but Ulli Rimkus called Lisa Bowman, and she was gracious enough to give me a private preview the night before the opening, as I had to fly back to San Francisco the next morning.