Sedgwick's work with photography has been a way to further explore his work as a painter.
In this work he appropriates existing images, mostly 1950-60's erotica and destroys them.
Using various solvents he loosens the chemistry from it's strictures causing the picture to imply "a painting". The refraction of chemistry into whirling, distorting lassos brings a
motion, gesture and energy that is not as much about the photograph's ability to capture and distill a moment, as it is about disrupting the time/space continuum and bringing an animation to the subjects stasis. With the melting of the image the subjects energy, aura and breath seemingly become manifest. The vintage B&W images themselves portray enigmatic scenarios that are at once humorous, sexually charged and implicitly violent. Looking at these pictures one gets the feeling that something has just happened or is about to.

There's a nocturnal feel to them that is pure id, unchecked by ethics, etiquette or codes of conduct;  a narrative where anarchic socio-sexual dysfunction is explicit.

This work explores primal, aggressive and lascivious impulses and employ the theatrics of an absurdist comedy to create a narrative that call morality and immorality into question.