“Anna Conitum and Her Lover” 72” X 72” Oil on Canvas, 2013
“The themes I find in High and
Late Romanticism—cruelty,
sexual ambiguity, narcissism, fascination, obsession, vampirism, seduction,
violation—are
all the still-uncharted psychodynamics of erotic, artistic, and theatrical
cathexis.”
Camile Paglia, Sexual Personae p238