Advent of the Superstalker (2024)


Superstalker started out as part of a series of images I made in the late 90's using a 3D figure modelling software called "Poser." Poser had lots of controls to make people various ages, heights and ethnicities -- and one of the dials you could twist was labelled "Superhero". I quickly found out that if you pushed this setting too far the underlying 3D geometry would become unstable and the figure would "explode" into a crazy, complicated abstract shape.


At the last second before they blew apart, the figures would teeter on the edge of a gender abyss - so masculine that they were feminine, or so feminine that they were masculine. They also looked very, very "posthuman."


I loved how crazy and problematic and unintended these results were, so I made a lot of work around them, including a short film called "Super Love People" (which was shown at the Coney Island Film Festival about 20 years ago) and a comic book story based on it (which was published in a couple of different comics anthologies). There was also a huge canvas print made of an earlier version of this image for a 2 person show I had in Manhattan in 2000 with my sadly departed old friend Roland Brener.