STEPHEN MILNER - - - SURFING IS GAY

Stephen Milner didn’t set out to be a “surf artist” in the traditional sense. The California-basednsculptor, photographer, painter and printmaker (to name a handful of Stephen’s many skills) hasnlong loved riding waves, but when it came to exploring his favorite pastime through art, it wasn’tnidyllic, curling lip lines that he wanted to focus on so much as surf culture’s expression ofnmasculinity.nSurf magazines and films have long sold us images of surfers as young, handsome, roguishnmen either chasing waves around the globe with their “bros” or posing with a board under onenarm and a bikini-clad model under the other for surf brand advertisements. Stephen keenlynobserved that the second you subtract the objectified female figures, surfing’s visual culturenbecomes more than a little homoerotic. In his most recent book, “A Spiritual Good Time”,nStephen leaned into this phenomenon, plundering hundreds of old surf magazines looking to appropriate segments of surf lifestyle images, which he then juxtaposed with shots from gaynmagazines.nThe imagery in the project wasn’t explicit at all, but the premise alone was enough to send ancertain segment of the surf population into a moral panic. When an interview with Stephen aboutnthe project ran on Surfer.com, the comments section and related social media posts explodednwith a mix of homophobic drivel and proclamations of support. Stephen had never seen suchnstrong responses to his work before, but then again, his work had never made its way beyondnart circles and into surfing’s mainstream, either.nFor Stephen, however, any conversation or controversy around his work is just another part ofnthe art itself. The work needs an audience to truly live, and the audience in this case needed thenwork to broaden its idea of who surfers are and how they’re represented in surfing culture.nStephen’s happy to be the one to ruffle those feathers—and something tells us he’s got plentynmore ruffling to do.nnhttp://Quiksilver.com/SurfingIsGaynnMusic by: Ssleeping Desiressnhttps://ssleepingdesiress.bandcamp.com/nnVideo by: Mortis Studios

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