Norm Magnusson Exhibition
LIVING WITH PORNOGRAPHY (for "The Definition of Pornography" monologue, click here. ) Several years ago, it dawned on me that, from a young age, boys are taught (by popular culture and friends, for example) to look at ‘dirty pictures’ to fuel their onanistic pleasures. It was an interesting realization and it made me think that pornography might be a good topic for a monologue. This idea sorta rattled around a bit and then one day I had the thought to find two dirty pictures online (not hard to do), print them out, and weave them together - something I’d been doing with other subject matter since 1985 or so when I first saw the technique used by the sculptor/musician Laurie Anderson. Well, I loved the resulting sculpture and immediately gave up any further idea of the monologue; I wanted to do more porn weavings and I wanted to do them big. Somehow they captured all kinds of things that I thought and understood and suspected about people’s lives wit...