This is an image I have created of the Carnal Gods. Taking a tribal aesthetic and mixing it with various religious iconographies, such a Christian and Hindu, I have created my own divine effect. The excessive limbs speak to me of decadence and extravagance. Even though I have used a male and female model, they fulfil my desire for androgyny by looking extremely similar to each other. Love and sex is not about gender, it's about becoming part of the same transcending orgasm.
This was an outtake that I was so taken with that I felt it had a place in the new body of work. It was meant to be a fun, spontaneous moment where the models dropped character, and this was the result. I love it, as it seems to be the second half to the image above. We have all seen historical religious figures deified in art, but we have all known that that is not really how they could have looked. I feel that by having both the deified image and the less doctored image in the same body of work that it begins to write it's own mythologies.
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