"It's the kind of things you wouldn't normally tell at a dinner party. The material spans from the 1950s through the 70s and beyond - accounts of being young and reckless and alive to everything, including the parts that didn't end well."
"Life can actually encompass all of these strange things. It doesn't have to be cookie-cutter. It's okay to be weird."
"I tried to go past what you thought I could. To go all the way into the unknown. Documenting it meant that I could remember just how far I could push it."
Larry Clark and James Gilroy's friendship began in the 1970s, leading to their collaborative book, Bedtime Stories for Bad Boys and Girls. This work combines Clark's photographs and Gilroy's drawings, along with transcriptions of their personal stories. The material reflects their reckless youth and the complexities of male friendship, emphasizing authenticity over sentimentality. Clark believes in embracing life's strangeness, while both artists intertwine their lives and art, blurring the lines between documentation and experience, creating a raw testament to their shared journey.
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