Wednesday, July 20, 2011

Malachi 5 - Very High Marx

Malachi may have retired from doing gay porn but he left us with a treasure trove of wonderful work to look back on in awe. Many of these pieces can actually stand alone as credible works of art in themselves. I have reserved this fifth installment in our Malachi Marx series for those photos that seem to reach a bit further than your run of the mill pornography.

Marx is incredibly charismatic and knows how to play to the camera. His energetic smile is infectious and he handles himself brilliantly in whatever situation he is thrown into.








This is probably my favorite piece. The diagonal pattern of orange colors work like a magnet to draw our eyes into a figure eight loop until we reach his socks and climb the lines of his arm upward only to slide with glee down his torso to dive off his penis once more before beginning the entire process again. In the geometric lines of the wall, table and carpet we see vertical and horizontal lines frozen in a monochromatic field of cool neutral hues as they serve to frame the vibrant energy we sense from the scattered bits of warm color continuously drawing us back across, up and then down over Malachi's hot body.