He Opened Up Somewhere Along the Eastern Shore
He Opened Up Somewhere Along the Eastern Shore utilizes image-making as a wedge to intervene inside Western culture’s traditions and expectations related to masculinity, class, and heroism. This project opens up a space for a counter-narrative to exist, one that focuses on individual experience, vulnerability, and intimacy rather than that which is enforced by the State: an impenetrable unit.
We, the men of these images and myself, might not sit at an equal distance from the center, but we all have a complicated relationship to what is considered normal — to our benefit and our destruction.
Steven Two-Faced
Patrick (car)
Patrick (bed)
Steven's photo of a man sleeping
Steven's self portrait #2
Steven's photo of a fan and A/C
Steven's photo a man carrying piss
Steven
Patrick (welcome)
Steven (turn)
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Steven's photo of a bunk
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Steven in a bed of flowers
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Steven's self portrait #3
Steven (snow)