| I attempt in my personal work to imply sexuality and sensuality rather than be explicit about it—how do I do this? It is the suggestiveness of a pose or relationship between people in my works, or the use of a title. In film its called the "montage technique" of putting 2 or 3 images together, rather than only one image making a statement. Interchanging 2 or 3 images together can change the meaning of one image to have different interpretations. In painting, a title can suggest what the image you are looking at is all about. For instance, consider a painting of a woman standing or sitting with a man, the title of which is, Do You Like Me?—is the woman a hooker? Is she asking ‘how do I look?’ ‘Do you like my dress—my makeup?’ ‘I was a brunette, now I am a blonde—How do I look?’ | 
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Harry Weisburd is an artist based in San Francisco, CA.
Harry Weisburd, How About a Drink, 2007. Watercolor on stretched canvas, 16 x 12 inches. Courtesy of the artistI attempt in my personal work to imply sexuality and sensuality rather than be explicit about it—how do I do this? It is the suggestiveness of a pose or relationship between people in my works, or the use of a title. In film its called the "montage technique" of putting 2 or 3 images together, rather than only one image making a statement. Interchanging 2 or 3 images together can change the meaning of one image to have different interpretations. In painting, a title can suggest what the image you are looking at is all about. For instance, consider a painting of a woman standing or sitting with a man, the title of which is, Do You Like Me?—is the woman a hooker? Is she asking ‘how do I look?’ ‘Do you like my dress—my makeup?’ ‘I was a brunette, now I am a blonde—How do I look?’
What are the positive and negative aspects of erotic art in American society? Or does American culture dictate the overuse of the erotic? I have an interesting observation about that—last year in one month, my website, where I had listed many erotic works, received 146, 616 inquiries, or “hits.” I researched the cities and countries from which inquires originated from—much to my surprise, I had many more inquires from places where it is forbidden to look at semi-nude or nude women, countries like Iran, Iraq, Egypt, and Middle Eastern Countries in general, including Turkey. Amazing! The forbidding of sexuality encourages inquiries elsewhere. Sex sells—period, anywhere, any country.
