Courtesy of the artist and Marianne Boesky Gallery, New York and Aspen. © John Waters. Photo credit: Dario Lasagni
John Waters
21 Pasolini Pimples, 2006
Edition of 5
Jordan Riefe of the L.A. Times: “21 Pasolini Pimples” seems like a signature piece from you. John Waters: It kind of looks like nipples but it’s actually from boys he...
Jordan Riefe of the L.A. Times: “21 Pasolini Pimples” seems like a signature piece from you.
John Waters: It kind of looks like nipples but it’s actually from boys he found attractive. I’ve seen all his movies, and I love [Pier] Pasolini and I know who his boyfriends were from reading everything. And they all had pimples. I went through and found every movie where you can see them. And then I had to zoom in and then cut each one out very clumsily, like a child in kindergarten, and glue them on the page and then take a photograph of them. As ridiculous as it is, it is quite a process. There’s a lot of research that goes into it.
John Waters: It kind of looks like nipples but it’s actually from boys he found attractive. I’ve seen all his movies, and I love [Pier] Pasolini and I know who his boyfriends were from reading everything. And they all had pimples. I went through and found every movie where you can see them. And then I had to zoom in and then cut each one out very clumsily, like a child in kindergarten, and glue them on the page and then take a photograph of them. As ridiculous as it is, it is quite a process. There’s a lot of research that goes into it.