The Nature of Desire OOP 9 x 12 inches

9 x 12 inches

printed on uncoated paper

small town parades and rodeo queens

Goicolea’s subjects seem to have left their public schoolboy roots behind and matriculated in an environment which is otherworldly

‘bronco riders’ and ‘buckle bunnies’

The Nature of Desire OOP 9 x 12 inches"Photographers are always looking at things, but they never question the nature of the thing itself. A photograph of a corpse tells me nothing of the metaphysical implications of death, which are ultimately more significant than its appearance. A photograph of a person whom we find attractive does not reveal the complex nature of the desire that it provokes in us. we are constantly responding without examining the subtle mechanisms of our response.