Lately, I’ve concluded that my photographs deal with the confusion of intimacy;

the way we use it as a form of expression, trying to communicate ideas and

emotions that are beyond language.  We use our bodies, our skin and senses to

say things that we’re unable, unwilling, perhaps even frightened to put into words.

The method changes from person to person…a kiss,  a  tattoo, a pregnancy,  an

embrace, the power of sex to transform and liberate our inner selves, the use of

sex to obscure and momentarily erase our true needs and desires.  I make the

images I do in the hope of understanding the human struggle to be less alone,  or

at least to be alone together.

melvin moten  jr.

october  7, 2001

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