Pygmalion
Pygmalion is that figure of Greek mythology who fell in love with his own sculpture of a woman. In the early ‘80’s, when cable television and VCRs were the new thing, I had made a painting on the theme of man’s romance with technologies, very much the same as this painting. With the advent of video tape the pornographic film could now be easily brought into the private home, and a new standard was set in the individual’s relationship to his pornography. Later, in the ‘90’s, access to the internet and computer tools made it easier to produce and distribute pornography, as well as to receive it, and pornography became so available that there became the term “cyber-sex,” as though the use of internet pornography offered a satisfactory substitute to sex itself. The theme of my Pygmalion, pictured in the early ‘80’s with a television set, was now due a revisitation.I don’t necessarily even mean to suggest that I have a complaint with it all, but only recognize the existence of it. In our society each new technological invention is used to serve our carnal desires. This not only redefines our relationship with technology and the accessibility of erotica that it provides, but also redefines our intimate need of each other.