California based artist Justine Lai has produced a series of paintings entitled "Join or Die," in which she depicts herself having sex with each of the American Presidents. The paintings aren't quite porn. They are more like Oval Office Erotica, but Lai does not hesitate to put the former leaders of the free world in some very real, very randy sexual positions. So, yes, that is Abe Lincoln getting domed out, and I believe that is Ulysses S. Grant spanking the artists toosh like he spanked the Confederate Army in the Civil War. The idea is to humanize and "demyhtologize" the Presidents by putting them in honest, private situations. Lai does a good job of actually undressing the men who have occupied one of the most "impenetrable institutions" in history. The artist reminds us that even Presidents are human beings. She also reminds us that the mind can be a place where a person can do just about anything with anybody (you know you gets down). So take a peek at some of the images below, read her mission statement, and think about what she's saying.
Mission Statement
In Join Or Die, I paint myself having sex with the Presidents of the United States in chronological order. I am interested in humanizing and demythologizing the Presidents by addressing their public legacies and private lives. The presidency itself is a seemingly immortal and impenetrable institution; by inserting myself in its timeline, I attempt to locate something intimate and mortal. I use this intimacy to subvert authority, but it demands that I make myself vulnerable along with the Presidents. A power lies in rendering these patriarchal figures the possible object of shame, ridicule and desire, but it is a power that is constantly negotiated.
I approach the spectacle of sex and politics with a certain playfulness. It would be easy to let the images slide into territory that's strictly pornographic—the lurid and hardcore, the predictably "controversial." One could also imagine a series preoccupied with wearing its "Fuck the Man" symbolism on its sleeve. But I wish to move beyond these things and make something playful and tender and maybe a little ambiguous, but exuberantly so. This, I feel, is the most humanizing act I can do.
Check out all the Presidents doing their dirty at the aritsts website
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