Ice Cream ( chocolate)

20 X 24 inch silver gelatin print.

Crabtree, March 1998

Actually it's chocolate topping and it was really cold - straight from the fridge. I had tried a similar pose with beads draped along Chelsea's back which was really nice but not quite there. The satin in the image Tina 1 reminded me of chocolate icing and Chelsea's fair skin often reminds me of ice cream, so I guess something snapped in side my head and here you are.

Chelsea seemed to find the topping a unique experience but didn't complain too much. Meanwhile my current theory on this business of smearing bodies with various substances is that it works because it is a kind of touch by proxy or the evidence of touch. Looking at an erotic image is long distance love but all the time one is trying to overcome that distance with an idea or association that recreates the feeling of being there.