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Sedentary Incites
As a longtime consumer of televised sports, my recent photographs are a way of reconciling that guilty pleasure. The work explores identity, intimacy, eroticism, and definitions of the body through the rhetoric and spectacle of sport. Of prime interest to me is sport’s ability to aestheticize and eroticize violence while rendering the masculine body as simultaneously beautiful, destructive, powerful, and able to withstand pain and injury. Such are the bodies we see on television - dramatized and mediated through countless camera angles and special effects. Employing toy figurines as photographic subjects, I hope to ask questions of these bodies on my television screen. Are they real or constructed? Are these simply games or does sport maintain a denser cultural gravity? I find something oddly spiritual in the hollow experience of aligning my identity with flickers of light on a television screen. It demonstrates a yearning for meaning in my identity as well as a blind faith - a genuine faith in nothing but images. It confirms to me that culture is the master of nature. If our nature craves meaning and belonging, culture will craftily provide an adequate peg to fill that void.
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