![]() “I was his best critic, and he was my best critic,” Tellin told me. While Tellin created evocative wooden sculptures and fascinating mixed-media works, O’Reilly produced thousands of complex, small photographic collages that put masterpieces from the Western art-history and literary canons in conversation with imagery from gay pornographic magazines as well as his own Polaroid self-portraits. Due to strategically splitting a full-time job, each man worked two and a half days a week - and was thus able to cultivate a serious artistic practice of his own. From 1964 to 1991, they worked as art therapists in a clinical program they founded at Worcester State Hospital. ![]() They built that shared life in Worcester. ![]() It was O’Reilly who insisted that instead of something casual or clandestine, “just going to see each other every weekend, or something, we should just make a life,” Tellin recalled.
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