Alone With You

At the heart of Alone With You is the notion of impassioned avarice, i.e. the kind of motivated acquisitiveness that drives both erotic desire and obsessive collecting.

Alone is built around two main characters, a hot young pro- wrestler – the maker’s object of desire – and Robert Mapplethorpe, the artist/collector par excellance, who serves as both alter-ego and nemesis for Ischar himself. But there are no neatly contained categories here and elements slip constantly between the various qualities of compulsion/compassion being explored. Alone is a densely ‘vertical’ work, its use of superimpositions and shifting frame sizes giving it an almost ‘anti-cinematic’ quality. The work is roughly divided into two parts with the second section re-shaping and re-employing elements from the first.