Frankie Modesto

This painting is of my two very close friends and housemates, Aidan and Andrea, sitting at our kitchen table, and discussing the content on a computer screen in the middle of the canvas. They are working on one of their quarantine passion projects- the ultimate kink list. It is an excel spreadsheet that lists hundreds of different possible kinks or fetishes, organized into different categories and subcategories. I was drawn to their idea to organize sexuality into an excel spreadsheet format, and ultimately the project itself being an exercise in futility because there will always be something more to add. Regardless, it was simply a way to fill the time with a friend. So, in the painting, I wanted space and time to melt away into the background, focusing on the specific action, the people close to me, and our relationship to one another.