ABOUT THE PELT
\nAcross the years and across the globe, I have had unexpected encounters\u00a0with strangers because of my chest hair. \u00a0It started with a masseur in\u00a0Cambodia running her hands through my chest hair and saying “oh, you hairy\u00a0like gorilla!” to women on the street in Nairobi offering to pay me for\u00a0them to touch it. \u00a0 Recently, my acupuncturist confessed that it was the\u00a0most amazing chest hair she had ever seen.\u2028\u2028Friends, and even strangers, have approached me in public to run their\u00a0fingers through my chest hair. \u00a0Many friends refer to it as “magical chest\u00a0hair” and pet it as a way of greeting me. \u00a0Slowly over time people have\u00a0begun to make wishes on it as well.\u00a0This all got me thinking, “Run your hands through and make a wish.” Like\u00a0the a roving Blarney Stone, or a queer wishing well… or an oracle.\u00a0Worshipers of “the pelt” are now asked to photograph their experience on\u00a0their cell phone and post the images and comments on instagram or twitter\u00a0with the hashtag \u00a0#wishingpelt. \u00a0The website\u00a0wishingpelt.com\u00a0will then\u00a0collect all of these photographs and tweets, creating a living archive of\u00a0the public’s experience with the pelt.<\/p>\n
Bio
\nRaised in Ridgewood, NJ, Sean Fader spent most of his life as an actor, acting, singing, and dancing since he was five years old. \u00a0After attending Northwestern and The New School University he performed on several national tours with stops both on and off-Broadway. Sean then earned his MA from the Maryland Institute College of Art, where he was the recipient of the Murthy Digital Arts Award and his MFA at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. He was named Fringe Underground Magazine’s “Art Star” in their Fall 2005 issue. In 2007 his work was featured in First Look II: the best of the new artists in the U.S. at the Hudson Valley Center For Contemporary Art. \u00a0He was also awarded the Critics Choice Award in the Professional category at the 11th Annual Chicago Art Open. \u00a0 Sean was the recipient of “3rd Ward’s Fall Solo Show” prize and was named as one of the winners of the Magenta Foundation’s Flash Forward Award for Emerging Photographers. \u00a0Recently Sean was named A Blade of Grass Fellow for 2012-2013. Sean resides in New York City.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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