Thor balls
This is the Thor painting we have up over our dining room table.
When I was in college, working towards getting a BFA, I did a whole series of paintings like this, where I took panels from Marvel and DC comic books, and cropped them so that the characters heads and stuff were cut-off. It was supposed to be a statement about objectifying male characters in comics, and also supposed to be kind of funny.
Anyway, I just always liked how this one came out, and it’s been hanging up in my various apartments for years, though usually in a bedroom, or last apartment-go-round in my office.
Where we live now, this is currently up in the dining room. We had Hanukkah dinner at our place yesterday, and while we were eating, one of my wife’s relatives looked up and noted that this was basically a painting of Thor’s crotch. I had to admit, that yes, it was. I’d kind of forgotten that it’s kind of an odd picture to have up.
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I like the stars, too. A classy touch.
I like the painting, actually, I just was surprised that after all these years it never registered to me that it was the groin region. I think we have “Thug Life” in our dining room.
Oh, I didn’t think you didn’t like it. It just made me laugh, because I’m so used to it being up in our house, I’ve totally forgotten that it’s this big brightly colored crotch shot