AUDITION/6:40 AM

Audition/6:40 AM returns me to an on going theme of interest explored in previous works, the artist as predator (the noun): an animal that naturally preys on others.

Seduced by the sunrise occuring outside my window at the foot of the bed at approximately 6:40 AM, with at the same time, IPhone in hand, I took pause on the most beautiful profile picture I had ever seen.

I just need to say you are beautiful. I messaged him. And sent my photo. We started a conversation that led back to my purposely-provocative opening line. Further along in the conversation, he asked, What made you say that? I responded, “Want to get a coffee?”

He is an actor and on his way to an audition we met for a coffee. We chatted for an hour and made plans to meet again.

I wondered if I had inadvertanly walked into an audition of my own.

This new work is the result of that meeting and unaware to him, or even me at that very moment, I had found the subject of this new body of work. If as Jean-Luc Godard says “Cinema is truth twenty-four frames per second”, I was about to become this actor’s biggest fan, which thus gave me a narrative. A mash up, a jump-cut, an assembly of photographs, drawings and video that expose my compulsive desire to flirt with, and objectify the subject. The final piece in the exhibit is a short film, an audition, his audition and mine.