It’s all about anticipation.
You know it’s coming. Doubt and desire are battling it out in your heart, head, and…other parts. You’ve committed to the offer. It’s time.
A series of three paintings of gorgeous beauties about to be…



A passive male figure is not unheard of in Western art, but passive in the form of a willing offering of themselves is not so common. It’s something I wanted to explore more in this work (and two more in the series). While the offering could have taken the form of something more mundane like a religious or political allegory, I wanted to instead go deeper. What if the offering is being made to something inhuman, otherworldly? Well then you have the subversive thrill of a male figure, usually associated with control and power, willingly giving in to, seeking union with larger elemental forces.
There are three paintings in the series, each focused on a different element: water, earth, and metal. Each element evokes a very different environment and, more importantly, a different manifestation of the totality to which our golden beauties are about to merge with. The erotic need not, indeed should not, be limited merely to the human realm.
Offering 1: Water, a tentative resolve
Oil on linen, mounted on panel
20 in. x 16 in.

Offering 2: Wood, roots of desire
Oil on linen, mounted on panel
20 in. x 16 in.

Offering 3: Metal, adamantine embrace
Oil on linen, mounted on panel
20 in. x 16 in.
