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Bas’ earliest work drew on popular series, like the Hardy Boys, portraying androgynous boys (bound in homoerotic circumstance) struggling against adverse oceans of water swollen with intrepid line, recalling the Florida straight crossed by Cuban exiles. Bas draws upon this cultural difference, utilizing the literary formula of the blond as the dark haired boy’s (of other or implicitly “southern or eastern origin”) object of desire reflecting the way that difference and desire merge, staging florid Othello-like narratives complete with tragedy masks. Hence for Bas, popular and literary genres further the development of a personal and relevant sensuousness in fleshy, painterly landscapes where categorization becomes slippery.