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The inspiration for the character Heracles came as a result of Andy and me playing out on the dry shores of The Great Salt Lake. Working with someone as open and free with his body as Andy is means the sky's the limit when it comes to creativity. But it's not the skies we reached for, it was the earth beneath us.

I fashioned Andy's pubes from flowering sage that was in full bloom at the edge of the lake. His staff is a rusted piece of iron fence that we found lying around and his necklace is a piece of iron that broke off from the bottom of it; the part that anchors the post into the ground. I attached it to a strand of handspun alpaca yarn that I had in my camera bag and draped it around his neck. And his simple headpiece is a scarf that I bought in Rome a few years ago.

After I painted Andy's body with my hands I rubbed him with sand and salt, diffusing the colors and blending them into his golden skin. A few lengths of manila rope accented his wrist and ankle. There was no real plan, just whatever came to us in the moment. Andy's patience made it possible for me to play and have fun and we both laughed a lot and eventually came up with Heracles, whose brief story is lifted from legend and presented below.

"Heracles had many lovers; some were women some were men. After wrestling the Nemean Lion to its death the matter of who Heracles fucked became relatively unimportant."

~andrew042886 photographed by Tom Clark at Rozel Point on The Great Salt Lake in Utah. Copyright Tom Clark - All Rights Reserved

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~FrodoPrime Mar 17, 2012  Hobbyist Photographer
wonderful montage
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*Izzie-Kikue Mar 9, 2012   General Artist
Wonderful beginning story for Heracles! Boy, could I take that and run adding the story to my written collection of passion! Your creativity shines in this one!
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*3feathers Mar 9, 2012  Professional Photographer
I know, right? The story of Heracles is so amazing.
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*Zhaanman Mar 4, 2012  Hobbyist General Artist
This was actually one of the first shots of yours I ever saw and its still impressive and colorfully imaginative!
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~reveur59 Mar 3, 2012
Beautiful contrast the orange of the painted flesh and the blue of the sky. So... you painted him with your hands... I understand why he seems so "happy" in the left bottom picture. ;-)
Great pictures!

Pat
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