Myth of the First Kiss (2025)

Painting, Oil on Canvas 
Size: 95 x 80 cm | 37.4 x 31.5 in

$2,000
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Artwork Details

The canvas is mounted on a supported wooden frame and sold ready to hang. The painting is not framed. The edges of the artwork are painted. It is signed, titled, and dated on the back.

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Certificate of Authenticity

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About the Artwork

Myth of the First Kiss imagines the first moment two men ever kissed — not as history, but as myth. In this vision, the kiss is sacred and primal, a moment of ignition that ripples across time. Their bodies lean into each other with hunger and grace, surrounded by flame-like feathers and dreamlike color, as if the world itself is blooming from their touch.

This painting is not a portrait of individuals, but of transformation — a metaphor for becoming. The figures, glowing with sensual energy, exist outside shame or secrecy. Their intimacy is not hidden. It is the source of creation.

Queer love here is not explained or justified — it is simply true, mythic in its beauty, powerful in its eroticism. With expressive brushwork and luminous skin tones, Myth of the First Kiss joins the contemporary queer art tradition that reclaims male desire and tenderness as forces worthy of reverence.

This is a kiss that began everything.

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