Isaac's Art

Beach Dude #3

2007-02-17T10:47:00.000-05:00

Once again I am using one of my perfect online hunks, Mark (obviously not his real name), who gave me permission 3 years ago to use his images as part of my artwork. I designed this digital tropical montage based in part on Andy Warhol’s method of superimposing the layers of his serigraphs slightly out of register. Here the layers of my work are purposefully manipulated so that they are misaligned. The original work created using the Adobe Suite of software had over 98 layers created from 45 photographs I had taken of beach, flowers, trees, and my own distressed paintings, as well as the image of Mark.

The red and white splashes are based on the same cosmology that I have explained in previous works.

For those few individuals who have bothered to manipulate my blog thoroughly enough to find these images, I hope you enjoy this new one.

2006-07-07T10:14:00.000-04:00

Beach Dude

The perfect young man relaxes and smiles and looks out directly into our eyes on the perfect day in paradise. Ah-h-h-h-h-h!

But what are all those white and red spots about?

Gay Young Men

2006-05-25T09:47:00.000-04:00

I know they are everywhere, looking out from their dwelling places into the warm tropical spaces that surround us. Here, today, in this homophobic culture that denies them the right to marriage and family, they desire love, need love, hope for love. Sometimes they are so crippled by internalized homophobia they don't know how to love themselves much less anyone else. However, I believe that someday God will grant us all, even his various bigoted evangelical Christian and Catholic church members the wisdom to love one another no matter our various God-given sexualities.

Tropics #2

2006-02-23T10:55:00.000-05:00

Tropical Man

2006-01-18T22:59:00.000-05:00

Lush green everywhere, and tropical blooms in the middle of January. I have been taking photographs wherever I go in South Florida, but the flowers everywhere are truly amazing, especially the bougainvillea and hibiscus. The Latin influence on architecture, food, and style is ubiquitous, and, sexual tension is evident in the air I breathe.

Of course, there is more to this montage. I used digital images taken of distressed painted surfaces that I’ve been doing for years. They were created after seeing old buildings in Mexico when Rebecca and I traveled there in the fifties and sixties. The weathering of brilliant colors encrusted within one another exposing pealed pastel patches, and partially revealed images of old posters buried in layered history amazed me.

Additionally there are those enigmatic spatters of red and white paint that imply a dance between and among sexual acts, life, procreation, pleasure, and death.

The Perfect Beach -

2005-11-16T23:05:00.000-05:00

an old man’s dream of youth – complete with a magnificent dancing young man. I’d like to be there, to possess him, to be him, to do it over again and play the gay card instead of the passing card.

I'm Gonn'a Roast in Hell

2005-06-15T09:50:00.000-04:00

My own family has been creating quite a hoopla about my artwork. So have some of the citizenry here at THE BIG NEEDLE. One sweet old grandma told me “You will roast in Hell for all eternity!” Thus, I've created "The FOIL MAN roasts." He's roasting like a baked potatoe in Hadies. It's a central balance design because that is a Pennsylvania Dutch way of composing space.

Receptor Two

2005-05-18T06:22:00.000-04:00

I'm much more pleased with this version of Receptor. It says something about the volatile nature of a person's sexuality. Not only can one's sexuality be destructive toward one's personhood, but it can also be a destructive force levied against the individual, or the self as it is inhabited by each individual through the culture in which he / she lives.

Receptor

2005-05-01T11:55:00.000-04:00

He's built.
He's a dream.
Tilt!
Just in case
He doesn't know
He's hot.
He's the best
The top
The wave
The crest
Oh, so not!

Comment by Isaac

I'm not as satisfied with this piece as I am with the others. Consider it a work in progress. Hopefully I will make some changes during the next week or two.

Into the Forest

2005-04-05T21:41:00.000-04:00

Three young men are descending through this strange rolling landscape of twisted roots. They are beginning a long journey into a vast enchanted forest. What will they discover there, and what kinds of adventures will they have? Will they find others in the forest? Will they survive their trek easily, or will calamitous situations befall them?

I wonder what narratives viewers of the image will imagine.

Star Man

2005-03-24T20:10:00.000-05:00

This magnificent creature descends on us from the stars. Why he would consider visiting such a troubled planet is anybody’s guess. However, he brings the gift of joy and pleasure to the lucky few he visits, and he visits only those who are truly capable of giving and receiving love efortlessly. Sexual energy glows where the photographic representation of hard flesh should be.

Mars Boy

2005-03-06T11:08:00.000-05:00

I have been playing with Photoshop for many years, and I’ve thought about displaying some of my work before. However, some of it is pornographic – I describe it as artistic pornography – nonetheless, it is pornography. So I’ve censored my own work. It’s not that I find the pornographic work objectionable. Rather, I worry about someone’s lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgendered, or heterosexual child stumbling across my Art as they cruise the web, and I like to think that I am a responsible person. So, ah-h-h, where did I censor it?

I also made Mars Boy look as though he is wrapped in plastic-wrap because I wanted him to seem unattainable, and I thought that it would appear as though he is inside a prophylactic. The prophylactic made me think about HIV-AIDS, and the fact that so many gay men are choosing not to be “bagged” these days, despite the danger. Mars is the god of war, and sometimes I see sex between consenting adults as, at minimum, a skirmish in the game of love and war. I used the sun set because my own sun is setting, and I look back at this young man's body with thoughts of my own lost youth, and obviously lustful eyes. The ocean/sea is present, because it represents the eternal feminine that is present in us all whether male or female. The clouds are floating by because the young man is heavenly. I put the orchids in the background because Mars Boy is in full blossom, like a hot steamy garden in the tropics

I’m sure there are many other inferences that might be made other than those I, the artist, make. Viewers might like to comment on such, either here, or on my linked journal, Isaac Stolzfuts’ Journal.