Lingam

 Lingam, Michael Kehrlein, Paris 1983, Granite

The lingam has been interpreted as a symbol of male creative energy

The receptive male

Being an asshole is all part of my manly essence!

Manly Essence

Phantom in my closet

Emile Kehrlein

This is my great-grandfather, a very manly male indeed! He was the owner of the Nymphia in San Francisco. The Nymphia was the the biggest brothel on the Barbary coast in 1899 with 300 women.
What a MAN! (erat scriptum)

Renaissance

Bindo Altoviti, Raphael Sanzio 1514

Male beauty in the high Renaissance painted by a humanist.

Iconic Males

James and Marlon

These two "iconic males" brought the tee shirt out of the closet. James, with his cigarettes rolled up in the sleeve of his tee, in "Rebel without a cause" and Marlon, scratching/carressing(?) himself through his tee, in  "A streetcar named desire".

Antithesis

Princess X, Constantin Brancusi

Male/Female?

Dying Slave

Dying Slave, Michelangelo Buonarroti

This sculpture was a revelation for me, personifying the condition of men today. This man is sensual, much to sensual to live in society.

Beauty evokes a feeling of pleasure. This pleasure is closely connected with our infantile desire for security. Those forms or shapes which we associate with the satisfaction of this desire for security will forever give us the sense of complete satisfaction.
Our first notions of security are connected with the form of our mother, the curves and tactile planes in the human body are the origin of this satisfaction.
I am exploring the male aesthetic. I feel that men need to be liberated from society's preconceptions of what a male is. We must liberate ourselves from our first notions of security and society's constraints. Then and  only then, can we fully realize our maleness, our beauty.....