The Mystery of The Jorgensen Wall

above: Justin Jorgensen's wall from THE ZONE (click image to enlarge).

Justin Jorgensen did the design for this LA gay sex club called THE ZONE, and he did a series of blog posts about the conceptual and practical processes behind this strange assignment which i found to be pretty interesting/entertaining. One of them detailed how to do a wall with a contour line picture of a guy getting head, and it literally drove me crazy for MONTHS, because it reminded me of something, but i couldn't figure out what.

ANYWAY, today i was talking to someone about collage, and i was suggesting that they check out David Wojnarowicz, and then it hit me! that's what the Jorgensen wall reminded me of! Sweet Relief!






above: Various works by the seminal David Wojnarowicz

Interior Design of the Damned

"They may say Jesus died for your sins, but forty squirrels just died for your comforter. Continuing the morbid motif, it was somehow necessary that you not only trod on your kills, but that you were swaddled in their scraped flesh 24/7. This is THE Bachelor Pad, boys. If you weren't falling-down drunk from too many bottles of Mateus Rosé, that mirrored backboard was a handy place to do lots of cheap blow. Perhaps you got it at Studio 54, from Liza and Halston."

My best friend rob is friends with the guy who writes this site... there was a part of it called "Interior Design of the Damned" and it is HILARIOUS. There's only 6 pages of content for that particular section (link HERE) but there's way more stuff on the site- personally, i find the site to be a bit weird/confusing to navigate (Full Disclosure: i'm alot better than i WAS, but i'm still not the brightest bulb re computery stuff, so it's entirely possible that it's just me), but if you poke around you'll find all sorts of really funny shit in the same vein and voice (there's a large section on antlers used for aesthetic purposes ranging from furniture to salt shakers to high fashion, for example) that fairly begs to be explored and enjoyed.

If you'd like to start perusing from the home page, it's called xmere.com.