‘FANTASY SCENES’ by
Danny Passarella

“While considering this project I was especially compelled by the allure of the hidden, so I wanted people to look a bit deeper than they normally would at a Penthouse image,” says Danny, “Normally it’s the figure and the nudity that people notice. I wanted to draw viewers to the human being in the picture, and for the treatments to provoke a range of emotions beyond lust alone.”

The designs, Danny hopes, provide a window onto the soul of the models themselves.

The 16 artworks, sized 30” by 40” printed on to a Kodak C-Type metallic paper are both furtive and seductive, evoking both the ghosted look of a pirated VHS or the lo-resolution, high-contrast nature of a youtube clip recorded from a cathode ray tube TV screen. They echo erotica viewed through supercharged synapses. Lavishly colourful, the viewer is drawn towards them – perhaps too close, like an obsessive James Woods slithering into his television in the climactic sequence of Cronenberg’s horror classic Videodrome.