" Valentine" by Richard Schemmerer

"Sweet baby come on to me"



This is the day this is the night
When hearts melt like hot chocolate
And love takes on flight
When even the cynics shed a tear
Warmed by their boy friends’s cheer
When the future is rosy
A full belly feels cozy
Because it’s the season that beckons
When time stops to recon
And everything fits into place
Lifting up our lonely hearts
Silently matching us with space
To find the perfect counter part

"Frame of Mind" by Richard Schemmerer

Framed
or Frame of Mind
by
Richard Schemmerer


Life should read

" Enter at your own risk because you will be framed at the moment you walk in there. Be warned now and observe what is the frame work through which you will be seen how you operate as a human bio chemical processing plant."

We are the product of what we bring to the table of observance. Nothing and nobody and at the same everybody created our thought patterns and they are all ours to manage. We agreed subconsciously to be framed and released all rights to our image and intellectual property.

Life is an art project functioning as conduit for multiple planes of experience and our experience has been altered and our frame of mind and of reverence has changed just by reading this information and it doesn't matter if you believe this or not.

Making sense has been shifted to the nonsensical. I welcome everyone to this theater of hallucinations, high expectations and aborted dreams. This factory also will be closed soon because of cutbacks on the backs of the artists and their supporters.

Quote to sum it all up: “Life is not a synchronized swimming event but idiosyncrasy on steroids sponsored by our corporation of choice.”

"We are all under the spell of fear and gripped by the terror of an impending death which all lead us to question our place in the universe and our purpose in life.


Art helps us to express these concerns and to explain the solutions to us
as an antidote to our feelings of being not adequate enough to deserve our existence."

"what are you walking after"

"Heaven and hell are just a thought apart'

"Masking the truth" video by Richard Schemmerer

experimental video directed by Richard Schemmerer

enacted by Ray Solar

A meditation on our many personalities virtual or otherwise. A bill cap as a prop that can hide a lot or reveal what wants to be hidden.


The saying goes that the truth will set you free but as many gays learned early in life the truth will cause you and others pain. Pain caused trough the disappointment in ones self to not fit the norm and the pain inflicted on loved ones like parents who had a different expectations for their off spring and expected the procreation of their family line.

These are pains we all go through and can't really avoid but outgrow but there are other pains that cut into our soul fabric they are discrimination, bullying, harassment, and other forms of abuse that as a gay person we experience on a daily base directly or indirectly.

Another teenage hanged him self in a play ground visible to everyone to show that the pain society inflicted on him was to much for him to handle.

Most of us have learned to wear masks to hide behind or to feel protected by. There is no one solution to this problem but something we all can do is be kinder to each other and to reach out to the next generation as mentors to help them through these trying times of coming out but also of staying out in the open and out of harms way.

The Jody Foster Syndrome or Stage Fright by Richard Schemmerer

The Jody Foster Syndrome or Stage Fright by Richard Schemmerer



Stage Fright

Not everyone is born to be the next Robert Mapplethorn or Ellen DeGeneres. Things are not black and white or only yellow. Tulips bloom every spring pushing a flower forward out of the same bulb.

Change is the only thing certain but change for the better is not a guaranty.

Coming out has not become easier and before things get better they usually get stranger.

To be part of a community means to build one and to keep it up.

It takes courage to overcome stage fright and by stage fright I mean to constantly declare oneself to others as gay. It can become tiring or monotonous but every suppressed minority had to fight for their place in life’s lime light.

I understand that Jody foster didn't see a need to come out lets say 30 years ago because her sexuality just like anybodies sexuality is nobody's business.

She came out as single at the Golden Globes award show and to be single at Fifty still has also its stigma. Just to be fifty has its stigma. Coming Out means showing support for a cause greater then ones own need for declaration or absolution.

She came out because she is a good sport and she had the biggest platform available to make a point that she is not a pawn in others peoples psychological make up.

It's her terms or no terms. We should take that at heart and accept other people's term for living life after all it is their life and not ours.

So the tulip blooms anyway no matter what. It is teaching us to emulate its character strength that even in the light of adversity something beautiful can grow to inspire.

Coming out daily is that blossom that might inspire others to also blossom but also to learn to appreciate our bio diversity once more before we become so accustomed to sameness that we wont remember how magical life can be.

Interview with Walt Cessna

"The purest form of resistance" by Richard Schemmerer

"The purest form of resistance" by Richard Schemmerer





"Form"
black ink and walnut ink on paper
12 x 18
$ 1300 unframed






"Resistance"
black ink and walnut ink on paper
12 x 18
$ 1300 unframed


I am not a slave to the majority of the minorities

I am the purest form of resistance

I create my own world my own peace my own love

I create my own my own private Idaho inside of me



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" Fucked " by Richard Schemmerer

TPR: "Fucked or RALF KÖNIG the King of Comics

Fucked

I dwell at the pale end of the spectrum where love and sex have not divided yet and remorse is just a word as of yet and not a fact. Where the light still tries to refract its purpose to please and not to blind.

Just shot up and fuck me he growled.

Don't take things for granted or they will be granted to somebody else I said getting him ready for my entry.

If life is the movie better make sure you are the director I thought feeling like on a set for a world war two movie scene on Grindr.

Life is a question mark ! How did I end up here and what the fuck was I doing besides fucking a stranger. Well life is to short to feel lost in it; I continued my inner dialog as my penis entered his ready and willing ass.

All this I remembered in an instant while I was pegged into the comfortable seats at the McMenamins movie theater. The Portland Queer Documentary Film festival was already in its second day after a rambunctious opening night. I was enticed by the King of Comics to show up and see for myself what it was all about.

I remembered RALF KÖNIG fondly from my time back in Germany where one couldn’t overlook his overtly funny and explicit comics which graced the pages of every gay publication. My friend Rinaldo who had reached his own zenith of fame with his Golden Queer series had been all tweaked about having gotten some hot shots out of Ralph for a photography exhibit. He had shown me some of the contacts sheets and I was blown away by the explicit Nature.
He had scored with a remote setting in an abandoned Berlin factory and the famous cartoonist was only all to willing to engage in some role play and dressed in a tailored dark suit, sported a raging hard on that stood straight out of his open trouser and a steady stream of yellow liquid flowed out from his piss hole over the unshaven face of an unidentified man who played the slave in this scene seemingly out of a porn movie rather then a photographic art shoot.

In the documentary, produced by Rosa von Praunheim, Ralf seemed extremely forth coming about his life and oozed a kind of take it at face value or fuck off attitude usually reserved for macho straight men. He talked about going through multiple relationships and how he used every cliché in the gay hand book as material for his hilarious story lines. It seemed he had given up on love until he found his current squeeze a gorgeous bearded man that looked up to the task to satisfy anybodies fantasies.

Midway through the documentary I recognized the aforementioned photographs in a fast collaged segment and was impressed at his eloquence as he addressed his wild times. He talked about a gay party on a world war one war ship that usually served as a museum and I recalled that I had been at the same party in Hamburg. He had a kind of an aha moment when he realized that he had reached a level of fame which would deprive him from now on anonymity and that any action he would engage in on this ship would be seen by others in a different light.
After all this was not just any party but a full frontal orgy where this oily grimy ship was the perfect backdrop for some mega raunch. I had not been as self confident back then and I am not sure that I am today as Ralph Koenig was. As he explained in the movie that he just decide not to give a fuck and keep on fucking no matter who was watching and who would gossip about.
I felt I had fucked myself there by not participating by missing out and I have yet to be part of a mind-blowing orgy. He pointed out in another segment that there is a danger that we become to gentrified and start to mimic straight culture as our own which would mean that we would also be neutered of our sexuality and in some way become as judgmental about sex as some of our straight counter parts.

Of course sex is not what defines the gay community but our sex positive attitude is certainly a healthy part of it and should be preserved in a save way. Thanks to RALF KÖNIG and his frank talk , what I took away was don’t let yourself be fucked by bigots but keep on fucking in spite of it.