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Forgive Me Father

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This painting addresses the conflict that emerged during my teenage years between my intensifying sexual desires and my Catholic upbringing. I struggled constantly with the insatiable urge to express my sexuality and the pressure I felt from all around me to suppress it.

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Powerful, and gives plenty of room for similarly tortured guys to make personal connections. To me, the angelic male figures represent the moral innocence of homoeroticism, which is horrifyingly juxtaposed by the nightmarish atmosphere. This internal confliction arises from the incongruity of the subject's individual cognitive reality and his social reality. Is the window, which forms a cross, his only escape? There never was anything to forgive.