PetrOnius

 My art is an enquiry on sensuality, sexuality, lust and desire primarily inside the LGBTQ community. I would like to explore every nuance of homoerotic attraction, from tender love to kinkier sexual expressions and situations. I have always been mesmerized by the complexity of this world with its rules and powerful fetishized imagery: the daddy cigar, leather queen’s chaps, muscle jocks pecs, drag queen’s makeup, master/slave whips, twink’s youth ... It is a world inhabited by fascinating beasts: 'bears', 'foxes', 'otters', puppies 'chickens'; We inhabit a space where everyone in theory should be welcomed along with their fantasies and fetishes.

I would like my art to contribute in freeing people sexually from taboos imposed by society and imposed by ourselves. Sexuality, as an expression of our most intimate nature, should be a celebration of life and not something to be ashamed of or censor ourselves over.

As a gay artist, I refused to be confined into roles and rigid definition of gender or accept stereotypical concepts of what constitutes beauty. All bodies are marvellous works of art and deserve respect, admiration, love and to feel desired, no matter the form, size, appearance, age or skin colour. We all should have the right to live and express our desires and sexual fantasies in whatever way we wish yet respecting the wishes and limits of those with whom we consensually practice it, without being judged.

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