Corner Pocket Art: Giant Drawings of Men’s Balls by Artist Belle Wether

Syracuse, NY based artist Belle Wether’s major project is something called Corner Pocket Art: Giant, realistic drawings of, well, men’s balls. I found this on Indie Nudes today and it blew my mind. I would really fancy seeing these in real life. In fact, I may never look at my balls the same way again! More than a novelty, these works are mesmerizing, and the artists’s statement is worth reading through. I usually can cut through the crap when I smell egghead art writing but this gal is the real deal: “The sensuality and beauty of male bodies is barricaded from popular consumption, perhaps, because of these associations, despite major museum shows of Cadmus, George Platt Lynes, Mapplethorpe, Lucian Freud and so on. What do balls mean? I think big drawings dissolve the identity of something relatively small and say “Look! What is this?” causing viewers to question their relationship to what is viewed— are they a visitor, an inhabitant, a participant, an author? I have chosen to draw balls instead of drawing pricks because we think we know what the iconography of pricks is. We aren’t so sure about balls. What is the nature of the sensual (as in everything from Georges Bataille to Abigail Solomon-Godeau to Susie Bright to Sweet Action, the new women’s porn mag)?”

Think outside the briefs!

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