Hidden Glances is a series of photographic collages constructed from vintage gay pornographic calendars published between the years when I was beginning to recognize my sexuality as a youth until I came out.
Each collage is an amalgam of two images that appeared in the same calendar. One image has the male figure spliced from the scene and placed on top of the second image. Through the negative space of the absent figure, a censured portion of the figure beneath is revealed. The collage is then re-photographed bringing both layers onto one seamless photographic plane.
These visual devices of compression of space, along with the duality of revealing and concealing, are essentially a metaphor for the numerous years when my gaze upon other men was tentative and fleeting, lest those stolen glimpses expose my silent homosexuality.
