Kiss and Tell Press

I’m interested in the unuttered and unutterable, the wounding that happens in silence and the traumas that keep us from speaking out. I began making visual and abstract art because prose, my medium for almost thirty years, was not enough. I tell stories in ways that feel closer to the experience itself – of war, chronic illness, and exile – through the broad gestures of drawing. My practice is the gradual moving away from literature's cerebral intellectuality towards a more physical and embodied remembering that drawing facilitates.

Michael Wynne, Exposed, 2023 © Michael Wynne

Moments of exhilaration and freedom, of shame and self-loathing. That strange cocktail of good looks and body dysmorphia, stretching what is appropriate to its limits, being both culprit and casualty.

I was fifteen when a man on a nudist beach asked me to be in a porn movie he was shooting at his home. I was so excited I said no. This memory led to a string of memories of other instances in which I'd exposed myself, and thoughts about how, in many ways, art is a form of self-exposure, especially if we want to express the truth of our desires, our actions, and the workings of our imagination.

Images were taken during a virtual photoshoot via Zoom on February 15, 2021 at 6pm in Madrid and 9am in Los Angeles.

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Michael Wynne, It's Gonna Be Another Shit Year (Keep in Touch), Kiss and Tell Press © Michael Wynne

Love in the time of a global pandemic. A photobook. Messages scratched onto photographs. Landscapes and found images. Love over Skype, mainly. Two men, foreigners in a foreign city, surviving, zooming. Leaving marks, leaving town, leaving love. What we leave behind.

Wire bound, 44 pages.

Printed on 250gsm semi-matte paper, cover is 300gsm

Book dimensions (closed): 15cm x 11cm (approx 5.9" x 4.3")

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Three Days at Paradise,

Graphic Zine

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