Sought (after Rubens / Witkin)

Exploring the regal and intimate through the lens of Peter Paul Reubens painting of his wife draped in a fur hide and how it inspired the contemporary photographer Joel Peter Witkin. Both Social Class Structure and intimacy are highly developed and ritualized performances that we engage in, one publicly and the other in private. As the public | private boundaries blur in both cases one questions how that obfuscation impacts the performances and performers themselves.