aka the Naked Guys
 
The Phone Calls are a series of four large paintings and several small scale studies of men talking on the phone. They are naked men.... and what does that say? I’m curious because I am not exactly sure myself. Originally this idea was part of my fascination with mythology, in this case the persona of Hermes/Mercury, the messenger of the gods. How would the message be delivered today? The disembodied voice on the phone can be a little god-like but should we listen to it? Then I became interested in the phone as a visual element with the body and finally in ideas about what is revealed and what is concealed, who is connected (or not), along with concepts of nostalgia and status evoked by the phones themselves - it’s really all about the phone. Along the way, these paintings have engendered some hot criticism related to portraying nude men which I find interesting given the casual attitudes about female nudes. Still everybody has a body and there’s a certain curiosity about others and a certain comfort for ourselves in that fact. Besides which, I think, there is beauty in the body. And that is what I love to paint.

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