🏴On first experiencing your work in 2008 in a New York galley, you expanded my horizons as to what were the limits of art, and how sometimes art is not as free or permissible as it makes itself out to be. I heard you failed your MFA at a big New York art school because you claimed some Texas artists made it all. Who knows. I screened your film “Good Times Will Never be the Same” at Mermaid Arts Centre in 2012 to a small audience of 5. Your kidnapping service drew out fetishists and masochists alike, dressed in your particular aesthetic that owes so much to Paul McCarthy, Jason Rhoades and Mike Kelley. That said, you were the source I drew most from.

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“Summer 2002, New York, NY. ‘The client got loose while being transported in a duffle bag and had to be fought to get him under control.’ In the summer of 2002, New York based artist, Brock Enright and a group of his friends from Virginia, started a kidnapping service called Videogames Adventure Services. The clients would hire them to provide a reality based kidnapping experience, while still retaining the ability to stop the ‘game’ at any time. Parameters were set ahead of the service, detailing the activities to be performed, but the actual time of the kidnapping was kept secret to add to the fantasy. An abuse fetish seemed to be shared by the clients as the activites were more physical than sexual in nature. Prices started at $2500 and the imagination of the client and actors were the only limits.”🏴