Doggy

"'In essence', writes Georges Bataille, 'the domain of eroticism is the domain of violence, of violation... What does physical eroticism signify if not a violation of the very being of its practioners? a violation bordering on death, bordering on murder? It takes Harvey half an hour to clean his hands after a painting session; "It's like being a murderer,' he says. He speaks of the animalistic and cannibalistic aspects of sex and the loss of boundaries as bodies fuse. For him painting is a similarly orgiastic experience, an abandonment of control. He psyches himself up to complete a painting in one session since, as in sex, the materials must be wet. Freud characterized painting as a sublimation of the infantile desire to smear the walls with excrement. Harvey smears colour onto canvas with his fingers, in an orgiastic wallowing." (S. Kent & J. Blyth, 'Shark Infested Waters, The Saatchi Collection of British art in the 90s', London 1994, p.33)