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Edward Ficklin

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Spartacus, queer hero

I can’t capture the entirety of queer experience in any single work or art. But, I can strive, one step at a time, one canvas at a time, to tell better stories than what I had in my formative years.

Posted byEdward FicklinSeptember 22, 2023September 22, 2023Posted inMusings, ProcessTags:dionysus, homoerotic art, lgbtqia+, male affection, queer heroes, representationLeave a comment on Spartacus, queer hero

The Path of Least Respectability

My art is a celebration of the erotic not just for pleasure alone, but pleasure as activism, pleasure as pathway to liberation.

Posted byEdward FicklinJuly 11, 2023July 11, 2023Posted inMusings, ShowsTags:homoerotic art, lgbtqia+, representationLeave a comment on The Path of Least Respectability

John Carter, but make it gay!

The gay erotic surrealism of Burrough’s hyper-masculine hero John Carter unpacked through the medium of a new oil painting

Posted byEdward FicklinJune 19, 2023June 19, 2023Posted inMusings, Painting, ProcessTags:homoerotic art, lgbtqia+, physique, queering the heroLeave a comment on John Carter, but make it gay!

A little modesty, please!

As nativism and fascist politics are on the rise everywhere, a heroine like Modesty is more vital and relevant than ever

Posted byEdward FicklinMay 1, 2023May 3, 2023Posted inMusingsTags:comic strips, femme fatale, illustrators quarterly, james bond, modesty blaise, secret agentLeave a comment on A little modesty, please!

Go Figure

painting of dark skinned male torso, shirtless, hands clasped in front of him; a grape vine twist gently around one of his arms

Making art is grabbing some inchoate idea from the ether and trying wrestle it into physical existence. Always failing, really, but never stopping.

Posted byEdward FicklinMarch 17, 2023June 19, 2023Posted inMusingsTags:erotic art, figure drawing, life drawing, physique, queer liberation, representationLeave a comment on Go Figure

We are not free labor, we are not the product!

person screaming and flipping the view off against a fiery red background

Imagine, if you will, our own queer, smutty twittergram where we share our work and our thoughts without fear of algorithmic erasure, trolls, or weaponized reports.

Posted byEdward FicklinFebruary 24, 2023February 24, 2023Posted inMusingsTags:fediverse, homoerotic art, lgbtqia+, mastodon, queer communityLeave a comment on We are not free labor, we are not the product!

The erotic as continuum–not binary

Top view of tired bearded young man with book sleeping in bed at home

Why is sex, and the erotic in general, segregated in our storytelling?

Posted byEdward FicklinJanuary 12, 2023January 12, 2023Posted inMusings, ProcessTags:consent, erotic, self-expression, storytellingLeave a comment on The erotic as continuum–not binary

The office, but not THAT office

close up of little statuettes of laughing buddhas and a meditating frog perched beside a laptop on a desk

Today I make one thing. I may make something different tomorrow. I close down by hitting a kind of reset button on the office, restoring it to a ready state–ready for tomorrow’s adventure.

Posted byEdward FicklinNovember 1, 2022November 1, 2022Posted inMusings, ProcessTags:adaptability, home office, Sticky Notes, workspaceLeave a comment on The office, but not THAT office

Workshopping Reality

an empty wooden chair in a spotlight on an empty stage

Everything that’s not burning hot like that hothouse, not pushing and pulling to reshape us into our most glorious selves, not utterly committed and vulnerable, is the mistake, the fake, the loss, the near miss.

Posted byEdward FicklinOctober 31, 2022October 31, 2022Posted inMusings, ProcessTags:inspiration, intensity, transformationLeave a comment on Workshopping Reality

Move Better, Draw Better

Expanding my routines freed up my thinking about health and physique, freed up my body and, believe it or not, freed up my art, too.

Posted byEdward FicklinMay 19, 2022June 13, 2022Posted inMusings, ProcessTags:anatomy for artists, calisthenics, figure drawing, himbo, homoerotic art, muscular, physiqueLeave a comment on Move Better, Draw Better

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