Three Kisses
13 x 10 inches
2007
Binding: Modified Japanese butterfly
Edition: 11

Somewhere between words and objective reality there exists a dynamic phenomenological expanse. InThree Kisses, the viewer is asked to slip into the space between the words and the images on the page and experience the almost unbearable intimacy that exists in that ecstatic space. 

The jejune ideal of gay beauty often relegates men of age to the fringes of art, if they even make an appearance at all. Three Kisses lays bare an intimate encounter between two mature men, men whose words and bodies devour ecstasy.
From a poem by Robert Herrick (1591-1674)

Give me a kisse, and to that kisse a score;
Then to that twenty, adde a hundred more;
A thousand to that hundred; so kisse on,
To make that thousand up a million;
Treble that million, and when that is done,
Let’s kisse afresh, as when we first begun.
Colophon page spread
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