Medium: giclée print

Year: 2022

In gay male society, leather clothing and accessories have long held an allure to a certain segment of men. Leather jackets, boots, pants, chaps, harnesses, armbands and even jockstraps or thongs are regularly donned, not so much as ”costumes,” per se, but more like ”uniforms.” In this piece, I chose to depict an athletic man in the skimpiest of leather apparel. Even so, these simple trappings completely changes not only how he is perceived, but also how he perceives himself.