We Want Your Art: Stuart Sanford
This isn’t the first time Stuart Sandford‘s popped up here. You may recall him from The Narcissist Issue, in which he said:
I see sexuality as fluid. I don’t define myself as gay, but I’m definitely far more attracted to men than I am to women. I don’t think it’s always important to define yourself as one of the other. It’s a societal construct and the main reason we do this is to get sex. So let’s keep experimenting, not just in our youth, but also throughout the rest of our lives.
Sound advice, we think, particularly for all you artists out there. Don’t forget we’re always open for your creative contributions. So, send some images to that schmuck editor of ours – it’ll make his day.
As for Sandford, he took these shots during an artist residency in Rotterdam. Sounds like a lovely place. Take a look at some other snaps, after the jump…
Stuart Sandford says : I see sexuality as fluid. I don’t define myself as gay, but I’m definitely far more attracted to men than I am to women. I don’t think it’s always important to define yourself as one of the other. It’s a societal construct and the main reason we do this is to get sex.
Well I think that is grand. Unfortunately there is definitions for people whose sexuality is not a branching river, meandering from one destination to the next. I have to define my sexuality in the sense that is specific. I am gay. I don’t use this definition of my sexuality in the context of society to get sex though. It is not my purpose in being defined sexually as gay. Besides isn’t sexuality for most more than just sex? For me it is. It is how I will connect with others as friends, as lovers, as family, within culture. When I throw in race, income, gender, and education to the mix of sexuality it truly adds a bit of texture (of course there are many other factors).
Sorry but statements such as Sandfords however wonderful they sound to many piss me off for some reasons probably because it always comes down to the sex of sexuality, and I think that there is much more to be said for someones mind than making stains in their bed.
I see Stuart Standford as a jackass. And a lousy photographer. No matter which pig he pokes.
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That is the site? I don’t understand… :(
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I am a true admirer of his work – his pictures are really witty and efortless.