This work exists in a space that institutions are not yet willing to occupy with consistency, and that commercial platforms are designed to suppress. The erotic body, treated with the rigour it deserves—as a site of formal complexity, psychological depth, and aesthetic consequence—has always required direct patronage to survive. Not because it lacks merit, but because it refuses to accommodate itself to the comfort of the market.
This is not a new problem. It is the condition under which the most vital art has always been made.
The structure below is not a subscription in the modern, flattened sense—a recurring charge in exchange for content. It is a compact. You are not buying access to a feed. You are entering a relationship with a practice and receiving, in return, work that would not otherwise reach you—or, in some cases, would not otherwise be made at all.
Every tier receives something real: objects, correspondence, proximity to the working process. The tiers are calibrated so that the commitment at each level corresponds to the intimacy of what is shared.
If this language speaks to you more than the work does, this is not the right arrangement. Support the work because you have looked at it and found it necessary. Because you want it to exist in the world more than you want the monthly amount in your account. Because you understand that patronage is not generosity—it is the price of living in a culture that produces art worth looking at.
THE PERMANENT COLLECTION
A Structure for Patronage
The following is not a subscription. It is a compact between the artist and the collector—a mutual recognition that work of this intensity requires, and has always required, the direct support of those who understand its necessity.
Tier I: Witness £30 / month
A witness does not merely look. A witness agrees to be present—to receive what is made and to hold it.
You receive:
Monthly private dispatch — A single image delivered to you before it reaches any public audience, accompanied by a brief text on its making: the formal problem, the constraint, the accident that became the frame. This is not content. It is a record of thinking.
First access — When new limited editions are released, Witnesses are notified 48 hours before any public announcement. Most editions will sell out in this window.
The annual folio — Once a year, a curated PDF portfolio of 12–15 images, sequenced as a narrative, designed for screen viewing. Not a gallery of thumbnails—a work unto itself.
The Witness tier is the foundation. It is the most essential tier, because it is the one that proves an audience exists for this work before any institution has validated it.
Tier II: Confidant £250 / month
A confidant is admitted further in. They receive not just the work, but the process—the evidence of the hand and the hesitation before the decisive moment.
You receive everything in Witness, plus:
What They Receive Monthly (The Baseline):
The Living Vault: Continuous access to the private, censorship-proof server. As I shoot, the raw files go here first, entirely immune to algorithmic takedown.
The Frame-by-Frame Drops: Exclusive monthly releases of the experimental video/soundscape works. They experience the La Jetée progression in real-time.
The Contact Sheet: Digital delivery of unedited contact sheets from that month’s shoots. They see the decisive moments—the brutal flash, the awkward tension, the sculptural failures—that didn't make the final cut.
The Quarterly Choice (They Select ONE):Because true collectors engage differently, you choose how you physically (or digitally) possess this work every three months:
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You want the object. Every quarter, you receive a signed, archival physical print of the most striking frame from the previous three months. It is shipped discreetly, a piece of the brutal landscape you can hold.
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You want no physical trace, no mail, no paper trails. Instead of a print, you receive the ultra-high-resolution, uncompressed master files of the quarterly video and photo drops. You become your own secure vault, keeping the work entirely off the physical grid.
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You don't want a print, but you want a whisper of input into the studio. Once a quarter, you submit a single aesthetic constraint—a specific texture, a lighting condition, a time of day, or a single word (e.g., "Velvet," "Harsh Flash," "3 AM"). I will build one specific shoot or video sequence around your constraint that month, and send you the resulting digital files.
The Confidant tier is for those who understand that the relationship between an artist and their supporters is not transactional in the reductive sense—it is collaborative. The work would not exist in its current form without the knowledge that it is being received by someone who takes it seriously.
Tier III: Patron £600 / month
Patronage is an old word and an exact one. A patron does not consume. A patron makes possible. This tier exists for those who wish to enter the architecture of the work itself—to have a hand, however indirect, in what comes into existence.
You receive everything in Confidant, plus:
What They Receive Monthly:
The Master Key: VIP access to the server, including a private folder of "Frags"—abandoned video sequences, raw audio stems, and unprocessed files.
The Director’s Chair (Monthly Briefing): A 30-minute monthly encrypted call or written exchange where we discuss the upcoming month’s concepts. You have a voice in the tension, the light, the landscape. You don't just consume the erotica; you help steer the intellectual rigour behind it.
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Instead of standard prints, every quarter I create a bespoke, one-off physical sequence (a triptych or a small bound book of frames) created specifically for them, based on our monthly briefings.
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You want to create with me. Once a quarter, we execute a specific collaborative micro-project or work towards something larger. Exhibit, travel, publish or networking opportunities. We build a piece together, and you retain co-creator credits and the master files.
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No physical items mailed, no calls. Your £600/month is pure, anonymous capital that funds the most ambitious, expensive shoots. In return, you receive "Executive Producer" credits on the major video releases and absolute, ironclad discretion.
The Patron tier is the closest relationship possible between an artist and a supporter without entering the territory of commission. It is how work that refuses to dilute itself survives. Every major body of difficult, uncompromising work in the history of art—from Caravaggio to Mapplethorpe—was sustained by individuals who decided, often against the consensus of their moment, that the work mattered.
Current patronage funds: studio rental, archival printing materials, travel, equipment, exhibitions and the maintenance of an independent server for the permanent archive.