Salacio

The love we receive is sometimes the love we believe we deserve.

This body of work explores my experiences dating in the queer world and the instant sexual objectification from other men. In many instances I have been treated as an object for sexual gratification rather than as a human being. The body of work was inspired by 1950’s suburbia and the American housewife. The Housewife was similarly treated as a maid more than a wife in terms of gender roles within the home. In “Salacio” the roles are reversed and the man of the house is the “human object” for the housewife. In instances of sexual objectification there is an air of desensitization and even self objectification in hopes to fill the void of loneliness.

The hope of love is strange, as all the love I receive is the love not for me but what my body could be.
And thus, maybe love is not for me.