In developing his deeply personal style, Hirson draws on a number of aesthetic traditions and, applied to the imagery of his own American up-bringing, he creates a contemporary Neo-Classical Dream-Reality, a warmth and coldness which seems to generate fear, anxiety, and a distant eroticism.The figures in his portraits appear cold and dead at first, but soon reveal a hidden depth and complex, contradictory emotions. Beneath their stark poses, their partial nakedness and ambiguous stares emanate an aura of dream and reality, of danger, and the diffusion of male and female identity in what seems to be an interplay between life and death.With flowers and plants, at the ocean or before a distant mountain range, whether on the patio in the afternoon, at an evening cocktail party, they meet the spectator with challenging glances in a setting both real and other-worldly...I edited my profile with MyPimpSpace.com, you should too!
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