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James Behan

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  • Excavation Extraordinaire
  • About the Artist

Digital photocollage and multimedia works documenting queer identity, gay male visibility, and the lives of men forced to live in the shadows. For Adult audiences. This site contains artwork with adult themes. Viewer discretion is advised.

Girls Night In

October 19, 2026

The ground of this collage is a jigsaw puzzle of a 1950s bedroom. Floral wallpaper, oval portrait frames, a vanity mirror, and dresses hanging in the open.

In the 1950s, this room belonged to the woman of the house. It is where she dressed, rested, and kept her private life.

Five men now occupy it. One sits and scrolls his phone. One flexes in front of the hanging dresses. Two kiss. One tips his head back with his eyes closed.

"Girls night" names a gathering of women. Gay men have long used "girls" for each other. The title applies the phrase to them and places them in the room the phrase came from.

The puzzle lines run across the entire image, including the figures. Room and men become one surface, cut from the same pieces.

The blue moon, for desire and transformation, sits in the vanity mirror. The Jupiter 3, for freedom and movement, hovers over the room.

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