TY the Master, James Bidgood for transporting me into the queerest, kaleidoscopic, pinkest, most camp, world. Your work is transcendent, you are forever an inspiration. Philip Gefter wrote, Necessity was the mother of invention for Bidgood, who created elaborate photographic tableaux in his Manhattan living room. His first series was an underwater epic called Water Colors, made in the early 1960s. The underwater atmosphere is completely fabricated; the bottom of the ocean was created with silver lame spread across the floor, he made the arch of a cave out of waxed paper, and fashioned red lame into the shape of lobster. For weeks at a time, Bidgood would eat and sleep within the sets he constructed. Bidgood released the film Pink Narcissus in 1971. The film took seven years to make, and Bidgood built all the sets and filmed the entire piece in his midtown studio apartment. #jamesbidgood #pinknarcissus #queerart #restinpink #gayculture