Eroticism

Succubus - A 21st Century She-Devil personifying the automated collective consciousness vampirizing the soul of the individual. She is playing with her cellphone, a man bound helplessly to the screen. From her pineal gland to his crotch area extends an ambiguous energy beam. She towers over an archaic fantasy city. Her skin is embedded with circuity, and she wears a sort of chrome armor bikini. It is at once an allegory for humanity's relationship with the internet, and a satire of old courtship games invented with social media and smartphones.

The painting was presented at Burning Man 2018. It was art for the 'I, Robot' Theme of the festival and was installed in the "Man Pavillion" at the three o'clock position of the pedestal on which the Man was mounted.

Erotikon and relevant sketches

Burlesque — A 'Bestiary of the Burlesque'. This painting celebrates the strip joint, cabaret, and exotic dance club while satirizing it exaggeratedly. The painting expresses moral outrage while fetishistically lingering indulgently on every regrettable tresspass of common decency. Executed in 2014-16, the painting initially derived from a sketch made late one night at Canter's Delicatessen (24 hr Jewish Deli in Los Angeles) in 1991.

Shibari Sketches are a collection of sketches created at various kink and rope bondage events.

Flesh Parade I and II are a pair of small paintings that explore a motif of fantastical fetish faux wall reliefs. Flesh Parade I was produced as a large print and used as decoration at Kinoko Hajime's bondage club, Bar Kun Kun, in Ueno, Tokyo. The paintings were also shown at Flame-o-Rama gallery at 1920 Polk St, SF as part of the Tableax group show.

| Torture Garden is one of the painting/collages I was creating around 2013 that is a hybrid of original painting, original photography and collage elements that was developed through an iterative process of photoshop (digital collage), large format printing, and acrylic painting.