Home - Secured Doormat

Made for a Canadian friend, in ‘Home - Secured’, the breeches and boots are those of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police. Rendered here on doormat, the perfect place to clean your boots. Tom of Finland’s pioneering depictions of homosexual machismo in his images of bikers, soldiers, cowboys, sailors and labourers broadly represent queer, leather and muscle communities. A master draughtsman, his works gave form to an imaginative universe that, in turn, helped fuel real-world liberation movements and had a significant influence on a wide range of cultural figures, including the Village People, Freddie Mercury, Jean Paul Gaultier and Robert Mapplethorpe.