I was watching ne of my favorite films last night – The Aviator. It’s a biopic of Howard Hughes life between 1920 and 1940. It shows his struggle with OCD and his eventual domination of aviation against the bigger corporate airlines.
In his rise to fame he dated and lived with Audrey Hepburn. He flies to a set she is filming on and takes her to play golf during this scene she gives her view on men, friendship and relationships:
Men cant be friends with women Howard. They must posses them or leave them be. It’s a primitive urge from caveman days. It’s all in Darwin. Hunt the flesh. Kill the flesh. Eat the flesh. That’s the, ah, male sex all over.
This was in response to his constant supply of glamorous girls he wore on his arm to various opening nights and parties.
I thought that this was interesting, I’m not sure if it’s a real quote from miss Hepburn or fabricated for the movie to highlight Hughes’s promiscuity, but I’d say it’s a pretty prejudice if not somewhat true comment.
My sculptures give the view that the hunter is now the hunted as the male comes in to possess and consume these females the very opposite happens they themselves are possessed and consumed. Its strange how clarity can come from the most obscure sources.
I have thinking about my work very deeply recently and trying to get away from top layer of prejudice that these sculptures offer. I’m beginning to think that these sculptures are a way penance for my promiscuity in my teens.
Theatrical trailer for the aviator.
