Balcon6 has a great collection of photography, much of it homo-erotic in nature, but all with artistic merit.
I found these images of fragmented men.
As a hard-core reductionist, they challenge me. Each image, like the components of men I have known, has a unique appeal. From these fragments, I, the viewer, am invited to reconstruct the essence of the man in the photos. He becomes a beauty whose hand is smooth and clean, whose eyes invite swimming, whose softly furred lips need kissing, whose cock yearns for a gentle touch and stroke.
Yet to dismantle someone, and pick and choose the bits I like, and the bits I don't like, is fraught with danger. I can, and often do, come to believe such beautiful elements exist in isolation. That a man can be compartmentalized with beautiful bits retained, and other parts discarded.
This is the problem with all imagery, including porn. I can believe that admiring these beautiful parts is paramount to admiring a beautiful person. Intellectually I know this is not true, yet through habit, I find myself doing just that.
And then the real men seem less. In a bizarre irony, real men with all their foibles, seem less appealing than the sum of their parts.
I love these images because they make me think. And for me, I need to think about, and properly contextualize the images or I will only see hand, eye, lips and cock. Not a bad thing, but they do not represent a whole [person].
What do you think? I would love to hear both your first impressions, as well as your considered thoughts.
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6 comments:
Honestly, my first thoughts were "wow, nice eyes"
Now I have looked at them a little longer I find the top image most frustrating. It leaves me wanting to view more, and to know more about the guy in the picture.
The bottom hand leaves me wanting to know more about their owner, than the top hand, I think the way it is photographed appears more masculine. However, I want to kiss and kiss and kiss the lips of the top guy, the way they are slightly apart gets me all jissed up, much more inviting than the other guy. Wasn't there are theory about the correlation between a guys thumb and their cock?
Both eyes are smooth and deep and make me think they are both young men.
But when I compare their hands, i think the lower man has working hands and might be older.
Again I am rapidly making presumptions about who each man is based solely on these fragments.
So are you saying that the fragments in the top are all from the same man and the fragments in the bottom all from the same man?
That now makes it more frustrating as I am more inclined to try to put them together rather than accept them as fragments which was my initial reaction.
They eye of the bottom is my favourite fragment. The top eye looks slightly bored whereas the bottom eye has definite life in it.
It is interesting that these fragments were chosen, since they are arguably the most effecting components of the human body.
I was speaking to a med student once who found those parts (the face, hands, genitals) to be the most distressing to deal with in her anatomy classes. Evidently, she was not alone because these parts are (at least initially) covered up until students become more experienced.
Hands are very important to me. And ears. A little less so, feet.
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