Love Shack
2014 - ongoing
Love Shack is a series devoted to men’s public toilets and the tension between their two uses: one of mundane necessity and the other of the need for covert and convenient homosexual gratification. By posing as an initiate, I was able to participate in regular observation of instant sex in men’s public toilets.
I extracted samples from subjects to create portraits as well as passed and received notes. Each is plucked out of its porcelain context and scanned, yet together they speak to the ways we negotiate our desires and reveal both the pragmatism, as well as the meticulously choreographed seduction, at play.