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Artist Statement

a naked man, Alan, with long pink hair and an emaciated body has a large speech bubble next to him with a large block of text, the artist and owner of the websites artist statement which reads 'I aim to make perverted art mainly for fun, and occasionally to explore more emotional themes,
I mostly do this through Alan, a 'character' who is much more than that, he is fully real to me, he is a person,
just not a biological one - he goes through lot's of things and feelings,
and I enjoy drawing him at his most vunerable, and largely naked.
I also create fetishistic art seperately to Alan, where I explore watersports, latex, and BDSM.
I work with paint, textiles, and digitally, and have began branching into photography as well -
I have been making sexual art for nine years, and have now started creating more finished pieces of work whilst at university,
which I feel is greatly helping me to advance with my art.
Throughout my life I have been inspired by artists such as Robert Mapplethorpe, especially his self portraits, and Tom of Finland,
as well as artists I have found inspiration from books like MADK, by Ryo Suzuri, and Teleny, which is attributed to Oscar Wilde -
Teleny introduced me to areas of sex I had not previously considered, as it explores many unconventional sex acts within a plot that
has no choice but to acknowledge the society it was written within, this resonated with me and I began becoming more cognisant of
the society that we live within, that being one that is not friendly to 'alternitive' sexual identities and activities, and that often behaves
actively hostile to these sexual minorities, seeing kink, fetish, and queer sex (and identities) as moral failings, so despite my art coming
from a genuine place of genuine sexual enjoyment, excitement, and freedom, many react poorly to my work.
However this is not a bad thing for my art, because these negative reactions highlight something absurd; a belief that you are not truly allowed
to choose what you do with your own body.
Because despite fetish and kink being consensual, and my art being mostly fictitious, strangers feel they have the right to make some moral judgement here, which is patently false.
So I will keep making my art, because it is important to keep making and doing what you love despite people like this, and because now, more than ever in recent years, it is important to be visibly 'strange' and not assimilate into the majority culture.'