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Photo series, 2002.
Framed gelatin silver prints
Thundercrack! is a series of photographic grids made from images of light falling on a large hairy man’s legs and underside. The images are arranged to resemble bolts of lighting, streaking across the night sky. Seeking alternate ways of presenting a body type that has historically received little artistic attention, I’ve focused not on the body itself, but on how light softly illuminates its sensual qualities. I’ve created a different kind of visual encounter with this body type to take us away from what we think we might know about it, and to experience it in a new way.
Thundercrack! gets its title from the 1975 underground film of the same name by filmmakers Curt McDowell and George Kuchar. The film is a classic pornographic horror comedy that has little to do with my photographic installation, other than naked bodies and my fondness for appropriation and exclamation points.
Thundercrack!
Installation view
Thundercrack! (V), 2002
8 framed gelatin silver prints, 51.5" x 69"
Thundercrack!
Thundercrack! (I), 2002
8 framed gelatin silver prints, 51.5" x 51.5"
Thundercrack!
Thundercrack! (II), 2002
3 framed gelatin silver prints, 51.5" x 16.5"
Thundercrack!
Thundercrack! (III), 2002
6 framed gelatin silver prints, 51.5" x 33"
Thundercrack!
Thundercrack! (IV), 2002
4 framed gelatin silver prints, 69" x 16.5"
Thundercrack!
Thundercrack! (V), 2002
8 framed gelatin silver prints, 51.5" x 69"
Thundercrack!
Thundercrack! (VI), 2002
5 framed gelatin silver prints, 16.5" x 82.5"
Thundercrack!
Installation view (L-R):
Thundercrack! (III), 2002. 8 framed gelatin silver prints, 51.5" x 33"
Thundercrack! (I), 2002. 6 framed gelatin silver prints, 51.5” x 51.5”