Here is an image of me in my werewolf mask. You'll notice that I have smeared my armpit with nacho cheese sauce. I sort of envision this aesthetic in a B-horror movie vein, this horrible, menacing beast who travels with a carnival and at night he crawls out of his tent and terrorizes people, showing them his cheese-smeare armpits as they flee in terror! Hahahahha. I think that the use of Mexican foods is a nice alternative to the use of blood in horror movies, perhaps. Blood is often seen to represent the soul and here I see the nacho cheese sauce representing the sun and its golden, warm rays. Here you have something which, in a literal sense, is zesty, creamy nacho cheese sauce that is quite tasty and good to dip a tortilla chip in. But in another sense the sun can be quite menacing in the way it makes us sweat. It makes our bodies perspire and sweat seeps through our pores, catayzed by our APOCRINE SWEAT GLANDS. The glands excrete sweat when the body overheats which causes bacteria to feed from the fatty cells in the sweat. From how I understand it, these bacteria excrete waste while they are dwelling in the armpits and any other places-- such as the pubic areas-- which contain body hair. So what happens when you mix something like nacho cheese sauce, soemthing that is thought to be delicious, with a part of the body that is know to sweat and be stinky? Well in a literal, physical sense you have something that can be considered undesirable, or at bizarre.

Not very many want to go walking around in the hot sun with their armpits smeared with nacho cheese sauce. I've gone up to alot of people at the beach on a hot summer's day. I've looked at their armpits, noticing that their underarms are hairy and that they are also sweating there. Then I'll hold a jar of nacho cheese sauce in my hand before them and say, "Hey, why don't you smear some nacho cheese sauce against your sweaty, stinking armpit? It is delicious," to which they reply to me, "Just because it is delicious doesn't mean I want to smear it on my armpits, you dumbass!" Hahahahahaa. So what you are essentially doing when you smear your armpit with nacho cheese sauce is placing two things together which, reasonably speaking, have nothing to do with one another(a technique I call "The Art of Inappropriation"). As an artistic statement, an image is created which affects the emotions. I really think it can affect people on a deep, unconscious level which makes them face themselves and maybe look at the world a bit differently. It makes them face what they eat, how things that are initially delicious turn into something undesirable either after a period of time (such as time spent rotting out in the hot sun) or when put somewhere unorthodox (like a werewolf's armpit). So I think this makes a good, subtle statement about the idea of "beauty is context". How something tasty and delicious like nacho cheese sauce or soemthing warm and providing energy like the sun can easily be looked at in a negative way in a certain context just as things which are commonly perceived as negative (such as a sweaty armpit) can be looked at in a positive way when smeared with nacho cheese sauce. It is sort of like the idea of "putting perfume on a pig". Does it really help at all? Is it a futile exercise? Like I mentioned before, the actual physical act may not make that much sense. It's the idea it conveys and the the use it has as a metaphor that makes worthwhile as a form of expression. So my images of a werewolf with his armpits smeared in nacho cheese sauce are essentially my attempts, as an artist and communicator, to add to the human language, providing new symbols in my own personal context (such as the stories I write about Mexican food and armpits in Hairy Gay Armpit Carnival).