Location and Languish: Boyhood Bedroom circa 1976
The bedroom of a 10 year old boy is often the place where isolation and companionship come crashing together for the first time. It's a place where past, present and future go on full display, and where moments linger for a lifetime.
The men’s restroom has long been a location in which men
look closely at men. The restroom is a site that hosts many dualities:
It’s both public and private. It’s both queer and straight. And
it provides a place of isolation in which people
find companionship. However, the public men’s room is a highly regulated
space, deploying a variety of tactics to monitor and control 'deviant' behavior. Given this level of control, it seems that the power of the homosexual resides not in his deviancy, but in his gaze. That is to say, it’s the eye-to-eye contact that seems to pose the greatest threat
to dominant culture. After all, silence is not always silent and a returned gaze is a moment in time where nothing
is definitive and a myriad
of potentials is brought to the surface.
