Sexuality in the Arts

Artworks by Bertrand Eberhard, aka ‘Lemoox’:

If you’d like to encourage his work, please visit:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/lemoox/

I feel a strong connection to Eberhard’s works because I think he and I see things through similar perspectives sometimes.  Here’s a story to illustrate what I mean:

About 2 or 3 years ago, I bought a large format book of the New York Times’ most famous front pages of the 20th Century.  I knew almost all the major stories, and I had already seen many of the famous front pages.  But as I read them and studied them closer, I began to realize that so much of what the front pages emphasized: scandals, politics, wars, falls from grace, and catastrophies - were not my recollections from those eras. And I got kind of depressed reading only the front pages.

I thought, “You know, I lived through a couple of those decades.  And if you were an alien evaluating our society by reading only the front page of the New York Times, you might still have very little idea what it was like to live and grow up in the late 20th Century.  I realized that the front page of the New York Times had not been my experience in those decades.  My experience had been focused on the arts: popular movies, music, fashions, trends, etc.  Those were the perspectives of my world.

And because I had excellent public school teachers in theater, music, traditional 2D arts, and mathematics, I realized that was a perspective I could record, share, and discuss with others.  I don’t see the world through the blacks and whites of newspaper headlines, but rather in the technicolors of the arts, cultural shifts, musical complexities, and all their infinite & wonderful connections and collisions.  So Eberhard’s emphasis of the human form, physicial intimacy, and human creativity over duplicated & processed information speaks strongly and positively to me.