Sex with dead presidents

Post by **faceless** » Fri Mar 27, 2009 8:15 pm

[web]https://justinelai.com/works.html[/web]
In Join Or Die, I paint myself having sex with the Presidents of the United States in chronological order. I am interested in humanizing and demythologizing the Presidents by addressing their public legacies and private lives.

I approach the spectacle of sex and politics with a certain playfulness. It would be easy to let the images slide into territory that's strictly pornographic—the lurid and hardcore, the predictably "controversial." One could also imagine a series preoccupied with wearing its "Fuck the Man" symbolism on its sleeve. But I wish to move beyond these things and make something playful and tender and maybe a little ambiguous, but exuberantly so. This, I feel, is the most humanizing act I can do.

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how peculiar...

pirtybirdy · Post by **pirtybirdy** » Sat Mar 28, 2009 1:04 am

alrighty then....lol! I don't see Bill Clinton in there with a blue dress nearby........lol!