works on paper > "Medusa's Hair" Series

The loops of the lemniscate, made automatically, without intention, began to look like hair. Medusa's hair specifically: serpentine, explosive, alive, and dangerous. And beneath that: female pubic hair. I didn't seek out this connection. I just saw it. The psychoanalytical consequences of this male reading of my own automatic drawings as female pubic hair are obvious. Cixous and Ettinger helped me think about what I was doing. But why not male pubic hair? A straight male artist, 53, white, Central European (but no macho, I guess), making these forms obsessively with his hand: the recognition that the hand keeps returning to these forms, and that this return means something, without being fully available to interpretation.