Scrambled or “Scattered” porn is something many have stumbled across during adolescence. Late at night, adult content would mysteriously appear when higher channels were reached on some basic cable boxes. The images would be jumbled and fuzz in and out with weird colors and static. You couldn’t always see a clear picture, but you knew what was happening.

As a painter, Fjelstrom has always enjoyed making images where the subject matter isn't so specific that everything is spelled out for the viewer. They are mysterious, sensual, ambiguous and emotional. These paintings have an underlining homoerotic feel with a heightened sense of voyeurism. Watching pornography is the epitome of voyeurism.  With this concept of scattered porn, the subject matter may be hardcore pornography, but distorted to the point of ambiguity.  

”My goal is to showcase the male physique by taking the normally objectified perspective of pornographic culture and elevating it to the point of fine art. The images are creatively censored by dissecting, cropping, or blurring out varies parts of the composition, much like that of watching scattered channels on a television. Since there are technically no depictions of full genitalia, it is not overtly obscene. It blurs the line of erotica and pornography, a theme prominent in gay culture.”

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