Spotlight on Javier Piñón, SFW

Main photo from ‘Medusa series 2008-10’ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Medusa_by_Carvaggio.jpg meets Betty Page

NSFW Javier Piñón post here

Javier Piñón is a New York collage artist, who grew up in Texas. His work fuses together ancient and modern mythologies, transforming soft porn girly pics into Gorgons, Sirens and Sibyls…

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‘Medusa, 2009’

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Kiss of the Siren, 2014

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‘Daphne, 2009’

Icarus is re-imagined as a rodeo star, propelled skywards, or falling to his doom…

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‘The Wild Blue Yonder’

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‘Icarus’

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‘The Fall of Icarus’

… while others ride, and are bucked by unstable towers of chairs, and chandeliers…

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‘Untitled’

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‘Untitled’

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‘Swing 16’

…and Don Quixote is a cowboy, tilting at Texas water wind mills…

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‘Don Quixote 4, 2007’

His website

edit- added link for NSFW post and Javier Piñóns website