Dave met Johnny….... / ...and fell in love… This is the beginning of something….thanks to the RB Gay Art and Writing group.
Johnny….....
Johnny falls for Dave…..
Dave falls deeper….. Young gay love in the big, gritty city.
Johnny in love…
...for contact…touch…love…
Introducing Johnny. / Dave and Johnny’s secret place… / From the Dave and Johnny chronicles (a series on young gay love in the city) Thanks Barry (model) and Bruce (attic owner)
Johnny and Dave have fallen in love. Dave is a little more street wise than Johnny but has a deep, kind and protective soul. Words and dreams are Johnny’s domain and together they are a team, a couple, a force and Sydney’s gay street poets. This next chapter leads you into their worlds, invites you to their door and whispers their love in your ear. Take your seats, lights down, mobile phones off…the streets of Sydney are their canvas and you are invited…
You slip your fingers / Dave / Around the strings of my soul / And I don’t resist I just don’t Johnny Outside the Newtown Hotel in Sydney. An iconc inner city gay pub, now shut down and waiting. Chalk didn’t work too well here but nontheles I don’t mind the final effect.
Recorded / Is our love Johnny / Across these splattered / Streets Dave xxx Darlinghurst Sydney – looking into Flinders St.
Dave fell for Johnny, and Johnny, surprised, hesitant and nervous at first, found himself falling in love with Dave. Together they have been declaring their love for each other in grafitti (chalk) on the streets of Sydney. Johnny (street poet) has found his voice (and love) using poetry. Finally, this is the first image of Dave. Quite streetwise and normally fairly private and protective, Dave has been softened by his love for Johnny. Thanks Ben :) From the Dave and Johnny chronicles.
I stumbled across these guys the other night. / They said they were Dave (right) & Johnny (left). / They said, ‘Take our picture’. / I said, ‘Ok…but don’t I know you….?’ From the Dave and Johnny chronicles. This one best viewed large Thanks Ben (‘Dave’) and Barry (‘Johnny’). You guys are stars – don’t you know it?
For the next month (from May 27th onwards) I’m asking people not to leave a comment on my work here. Rather, if you would like to support the work that I do please either leave a comment or upload an image here I can live without comments but homophobia needs your voices Many thanks / Robert Young gay love – oblivious to the streets of Sydney From the Dave and Johnny chronicles. Best viewed large.
I can see worlds in your eyes / Dave / They swirl like comets in your pupils / And trail words / Perfectly formed / Like your love on the ready surface of my skin From the Dave and Johnny chronicles.
‘God Hates Homos’ was stencilled on this boarding and someone else had written ‘But he loves Tabouli’, and Johnny couldn’t resist…the temptation.
Jeffrey Hamilton’s background in inner city Sydney / (thanks Jeffrey) and a mesage to humanity – my words / while chanelling ‘Johnny’
From the Dave and Johnny chronicles. Best viewed large. I’ve decided to submit some of these Johnny and Dave / images to an exhibition in Sydney on May 17th for the / International Day Against Homophobia (IDAHO). / It falls on the day 18 years ago in 1991 (I think it was) / that the World Health Organisation officially removed / homosexuality from its list of mental disorders. There are other RB artists involved in this exhibition too. / If you want to know more have a look in the forums of the Sydney’s Guide to Exhibitions group. Here’s the link.
Street Poetry by me as is the following: The other day / Like a cloud’s courage / I gently fell in love With someone / I knew / I had not yet met It sat unadorned / Just under skin / Naked Soft And I watched And thought / This love / Might just last a lifetime
If you would like to support other work I do please either leave a comment or upload an image here Thanks* Dave’s proposal… / As if marriage / was optional / As if / Marriage / Made the difference / Between love and commitment / As if marriage / Mattered
I wrote this on a wall off Broadway in Sydney. This is the start of another chapter of Johnny and Dave.
Shot in home in Campedown. Thanks Ben Thanks everyone for your comments and contributions to This Is Oz For a recent cover story on the site see this article featuring Anton Enus (SBS news reader) in a Sydney magazine – SX There was also a cover story featuring Rhys Bobridge from So You Think You Can Dance in Blaze in Adelaide
Ongoing Johnny and Dave series. This one is from a wall at a skate ramp – very roughly thrown together and made from ply board and found wooden planks – Carriage Works in Redfern / Newtown Sydney. If you are not aware of this series – over many months I have been graffitying love messages bettween 2 fictitious young and street wise characters (Johnny and Dave) on the streets of inner city Sydney – and then photographing these messages to upload here. I also have 2 young men who sometimes and very generously act as models for this series. See my folio for other images.
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