This series started as an expression of how I felt about my girlfriend getting ready to join the Navy. Whilst working on them I then started referencing Pierre et Gilles sailor photographs of the 80's, the homoerotic element attached to sailors and thinking about all those 'lost at sea'. My 'lost at sea' includes all the people I knew lost in the 80's to aids,alcoholism, drug addiction and suicide. These sailors are my homage to them all.