anthony goicolea

What became more prominent to me in Anthony Goicolea's lecture was his speech on places or ideas that he photographs that don't exist. They exist only in the photograph. The images become semblances of what we perceive to be real places but are not. He mostly spoke of this towards the end of his presentation when Anthony was presenting his landscape peices but the same is true for all of his work; the fact that an image does not have to be real to express important ideas. This was a great eye opener for me. This idea is exactly what my work is about and Anthony definetely expressed it way better than I had ever thought to.





Also, a reoccuring theme in Anthony's work seems to be childhood sexuality. I think his images that relate to this theme become relatively uncomfortable images. Many people feel as though children are not sexual beings but the truth is, they are. Children find out very quick what "the meaning of life" is and tend to act on their impulses without censorship. There are still a few things in society that people just don't want to see. Two of which are child sexuality and gay sex. In my series I have been illustrating the idea of men trying to portray women's roles. This includes the male wanting to be a sexual female seducing a male, a male wanting to be a female and raise their own children the way a woman would. etc.