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Made in 1997 in a search for love and vulnerability. I was discovering who I was and it turns out my emotions always get the best of me right out of the starting gate. The images says, I want to be vulnerable with someone but I can't find you.

I made the drawings using the photo copy machine in my high school library and left the original materials in the machine. Needlessly to say, they figured out who was drawing gay boy art and I almost was suspended before graduation.

Rene Carol Capone (b. September 22, 1978) is an American figure painter known for his depiction of the male form with whimsical, erotic and mysterious imagery; often used together. He also works with stories and myth. Capone began his career as an artist creating dreamlike, sensual, often homoerotic images of young men in search of love, identity, and their place in the world. His paintings and drawings are highly prized by art collectors in the LGBT community, they now hang on the walls of private and corporate collectors around the world. Born in upstate New York in the town of Niskayuna. He is the oldest of four children. His relationship to the famed mobster Al Capone remains a well kept mystery. His Birth certificate legally says...