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“Bubble Gum Boys”
acrylic on canvas
Spring 2005 |
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The twins have always been a fascination of mine, they are the archetype of the California surfer dude. Equally beautiful in of them selves they are a physical depiction of the many constant dualities in my life. The outer me that smiles and tries to be as social as possible and the inner me of a cringing creature that would find any dark corner to curl up in. In my youth, I was the straight stranger that put forth a great deal of effort to fit in by dating women. Many of a time sitting on a bench with a lovely young lady and be asked, “What are you thinking?”
There was the inner me that would be covered by saying, “Nothing.” When the inner me was thinking ‘God, that guy is really hot.’ |
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It brought many laughs and enthusiasm from my fellow artists. I spent a few days creating it and filled a vast canvas to once again go to great extents to paint the male nipple.
The painting was sold to a patron of the arts in Houston Texas.
In 2003, there was a great fire that ripped through Southern California. The fires came very close to my then home of thirteen years and the almost done with escrow condo twenty miles away. The fire brought to mind of all the art that I have never photographed and would probably loose. A comforting thought was that many of my painting and art are in Houston, Texas. The fires came and went and my art was saved. The irony was that in Texas, one out of many large homes in a planned community, an electric screwdriver caught fire in the garage in the five-bedroom two-story home of the art patron. None of my paintings in my California home were destroyed in a fire that covered the vast Southern California. But many of my art pieces including "Bubble Gum Boys" were burned in a house fire fifteen hundred miles away. |
Twins, I have read, are a massive gay curiosity. There is a theory that one of every twin is gay. This, I can say from personal experience can be true. Not in any concrete way a staple, but I know a lesbian with an identical twin and a gay guy with identical triplets. The joke of "Wow, you know twins? Which one was gay? The cute one or the cute one?"
The original photo of the brother is a humorous and frivolous moment of a teen-fluff an bubble gum moment that has been commented on many occasions. I originally did this as a short project in a acrylic painting class. |
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In my senior year of high-school, with the aid of a good friend, I was able to visit a book store in Hillcrest San Diego where among the many magazines I had never heard of in the queer world was this one magazine that was thick in terms of page length and was full of great photography that was homo erotic in nature that was not quite over the rating R. |
| Australian in origin and costing three times the cost of most magazines of the time, I bought it just for the cover photo. |
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"The Brothers "
Graphite on card stock paper 11" by 14"
1997 |
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Not knowing whom the cover models were until later, I did a graphite drawing of the cover immediately and have always like the illustration since. A depiction of the dualities of every person's identity to the fact they were two hot guys. See no evil, or something along that line.
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"Brewing aka Indifferance"
Graphite
1999 |
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The models for the photo have stated, accorded to a personal favorite magazine that came went too short of a time for a quality magazine, that any homo erotic imagery that they posed for was not their idea and they were tricked into the poses by the photographer. The magazine was XY magazine was unique in that it made for the gay male youth and seems to be the only magazine made for the gay male youth market.
For many gay youth, they live in isolation and a magazine about them and were made to be inspiring. It was PG and should have not been sold with any guilt associated with it. The twins, according to an article in XY magazine and was re-stated by Jeddy website , that "the twins and their agent criticized XY, a magazine made by and for gay male youth. Basically the Brewer twins or their agent said that they didn't want to appear in the magazine because they didn't want people to think they were gay guys or something, and anyway, they didn't want to appear in a trash magazine." |
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Among the collected images for this painting that was supposed represent myself as a Self Portrait as of 2003 , there is the twins in the lower center that due draw the eye a bit. Nude sufer twins showing off that surfer tan that only board shorts can give a dude.
The twins are an enigma in that they have some the physical aspects of what may turn me on in a guy's appearance as well as they have stated some homophobic remarks that turn me off. The brothers are what many people think all Southern Californians are... surfing dudes. As a Southern Californian, I can say that I am not a surfer dude but I am just a fan the surfer dude. As a friend once said, "Surfers are usually tanned, physically fit, wear shorts and sandals three hundred sixty five days a year and generally think everything is cool."
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| "Self Portrait 2003" (detail) |
| Acrylic on Canvas |
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About, Myself and I