Homorama

Homorama, a diorama with a homoerotic scene.
Men used and still do cruise and enjoy sex in nature.
It’s often seen as promiscuous, and gays often are stoned for doing what comes natural to them. It’s not anti-social because it’s not intended to be a thorn in the eye of the social.
There are several (few) designated places in a few (mostly European) cities where nudity is allowed. If anyone engages in sex there is often not because they want attention, though some do, but only from other gays. Not to mention, some heterosexual couples also take advantages of that possibility.
There are tons of books and studies dedicated to naturism and sex in nature. Often, through gentrification and close minded influencers, the city closed these places, cuts down the trees and bushes where some men meet for a good time.
Nobody wants your kid to see that, nobody wants to disturb your dog walking with scenes of men buggering. But those people slowly take the spaces away from gays. In such circumstances, the far right motto “we were here first” doesnt apply anymore.
Such a great loss to gay culture was the Pier in NY, a place abandoned by the city, where gays found a playground in decay (many gays love decay, we’re vampires, don’t you know!), a place that was home to gay city art.

My homoramas celebrate few such scenes. Men do run wild when they’re nude in nature and can release the primordial instinct of having sex. But that “wild” does not involve vandalism, drugs and destructive behavior, as portrayed by official media. As Im not a writer or political activist, I decided to make small figurines evoking the scenes I have witnessed. A painting or drawing would not be appropriate, 2 dimensions don’t bring justice to a multi-dimensional experience.

David Hammons, Day’s End, 2014–21. Stainless steel and precast concrete, 52 × 325 × 65 ft. (15.9 × 99 × 20 m)
a tribute to a past where gay people found a place to be happy and to die, away from a society that didn’t want them