Sexual desires are at the core of human experience. Nevertheless, socially constructed ideological formations pressure to suppress the social and physical enactment of many such desires. The expression of same-sex love is a prominent example. People under such social regime become consequently detached from their erotic stimuli and sexual union; they become in essence isolated from themselves. Still images from a magnetic tape recording capture this dire effect, and the mood that accompanies it. The blurry, gloomy, low resolution perception lacks clarity and confidence, replicating the mixed and uneasy quality sexual desires install once they are partly alienated from oneself. The depicted sensation appears sober, surreal, and unbalanced, yet retains its draw of fascination and desire, which is partly socially displaced.
