Forest No. 1, after Tom
By Zachari Logan
Located in New York, NY
This drawing by Zachari Logan is a self portrait made with colored pencil on Mylar depicting the artist nude immersed in the foliage of the forest. Forest No. 1, After Tom 2022 Accompanied by certificate of authenticity signed by the artist Colored pencil on Mylar 9 x 6.5 inches “This drawing is a tribute to Tom of Finland, whose work has long-influenced my own in relation to drawing, the construction of space, and self-portraiture. In Finland’s compositions, images of men in the landscape—logging, foresting, and relaxing (together, naked, clothed, alone, in pairs and in groups) had a profound effect on my own thinking about the queer body represented. I see no separation between land and body—we are nature. The queer body is not unnatural (that is a false dichotomy, often espoused by religious and conservative world views). Finland’s renderings of bodies in nature are for me a rupture of the largely European tradition of only representing male nudity...
2010s Contemporary Zachari Logan Art
Mylar, Color Pencil
















