Showing off again

This work is titled “SAUNA”. I created this piece in 2005 and again it references my time in spent in South Korea.

One of the things I enjoyed most about Korea was being able, at the end of a long day at work, to go and soak in a hot spa at my local sauna.

The traditional Korean sauna usually consisted of a hot spa, sometimes infused with green tea or jasmine, any number of saunas, wet, dry and steamy, and a cold lap pool in order to refresh the skin after the relaxing heat had made you soft.

Korean saunas are fully nude experiences, so I learned a lot about my own body consciousness and the enjoyment of being immodest in public.

In the cold winter months I would spend hours at my favourite sauna enjoying the warmth of the place, eating hard boiled eggs and hot noodles, and retiring to the sleeping rooms for a blissful, peaceful rest.

I even met my lover there.