Shifting Ideals 2

02-10-2016
Greetings! Now available in the Shop: the last and largest book in the Lenoir series!
Thirty six pages of some of the most kinky material Coco's ever made, from the late
nineties! Go check it out. And now, a word from the artist himself.
I've been drawing bondage for a long time now. Of course I can't remember exactly, but I think it's fair to say that I started about forty five years ago, for my own amusement. Although the word amusement is probably a euphemism, trying to describe the feverish excitement in which these early attempts came to be. I don't think I have ever recaptured the lustfulness of these, let's say first ten years. I just couldn't stop myself from drawing, getting all worked up time and time again, so overwhelmed by the notion that I was able to create and rule my own universe!

Of course, I still love my work, but over the years, that lust has decreased somewhat. It hasn't dissapeared all together, mind you! That would make it impossible to work. But somehow the emphasize has shifted a bit from the sheer raw excitement to the more (dare I say it?) artistic fulfillment.
Now one of the advantages of having your own universe is the fact that you can decide what happens, what the circumstances are, how the people look, what they do or more importantly, what is done to them etc. At the same time that makes it a very personal thing, and that is, I suppose, why my work is not for everyone. And that's fine: as much as the artist is free in his choices, so is the customer in seeking to fulfill his or her personal needs. There's room and something for everyone!

But it is true that I have always had a fascination about things that weren't completely mainstream. In my early years for example, I did what every artist just starting out does: I copied the stile of artists I admired, like Stanton, Willie and Jim.
With one exeption: I turned their dominas into my victims. And that urge, to bring down the powerful, so to say, has stayed a major element in my work.

Lateron, that also translated into the type of women I chose to draw. (I say chose, but in fact this was quite an autonomous development) They became more and more muscular and physically powerful, at first based on the physiques of sports women, gymnasts, ballet dancers, and eventually culminating in BBB.

Then, even later on, the figure of the mature woman made her entrance. Now in fact I had always been more interested in drawing women than girls, for obvious reasons (see all of the above), but as I got older myself, the 'age limit' of my models migrated in sinc, so to speak. And so now, even senior ladies have become fair game.

Now, I said that all of this wasn't main stream stuff, and when I started developing
these trends, perhaps they weren't. But during the last ten years or so, I see more and more work from other artists which seems to tell me that I am not as alone as I thought. And with regard to that, I would like to introduce you to two other artists, in our next editorial. Until then, peace,

Coco

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