Male Nude
The time of the man in the suit is over, at least in its 1950’s “man’s man” version. Yet even in the 21st Century many messages still tell men we’re supposed to be strong, assertive, in control: running the world, bending nature and other people to our will. But more and more this path seems at best futile and at worst leads to darkness. I seek to understand what it means to be alive in this time, what it could mean to find new ways to relate to nature, and what it could mean to find new ways of thinking about the place of men and the male body in our world. How does it affect our thinking if a man is portrayed as vulnerable, exposed, close to nature, and even beautiful: the modes historically and still commonly used for the female nude? Can the naked male body ever be seen as anything other than threatening, especially in this age of #MeToo? I seek new ways of inhabiting my male body. I seek to interrogate how women and men have been portrayed in art and culture. I seek to change how we think about men and the male body in relationship with the natural and human realms. I challenge gender stereotypes and explore our thought processes and feelings about the naked male body.

A Long Time Ago

Crossing Over

Wandering

Watching

Shy

The Icy Road

Contemplating a Rose

Mountain Valley

Bathing Beauty

Last Light

After

I Love You

Emerging

Ruins

Underwater

Vast

Big Rock, Little Rock

Backed into a Crack

Fenced Off

Falling

Amidst Humanity’s Waste

Trash Fire

Confrontation

Concrete and Iron

Into the Fall

Balancing

Behind the Door

Spread Out

How I Sometimes Feel About Masculinity

A Man Proud of What He’s Wrought

Misplaced Masculinity

Abandoned

Uncertainty

Stillness

Modesty

Quiet

Barrel Lookout

Picking Wild Irises

Flowers Beside the Stream

River Spirit

Vulnerable, Exposed, Anonymous. Beautiful?

Emerging into the Light

An Offering

Tea

Deep Inside

Inside the Canyon

Canyon Stillness

Deep in the Canyon

The Great Alcove

Double Window

Cornered

Lost

Watching Winter’s Arrival

Wrapped

Someday, I’ll Fly Away