How I Made This: Pacifico Silano’s Obliquely Erotic Vintage Magazine Collages

The artist Pacifico Silano has boxes and boxes of vintage gay erotica — he thinks he has around 300 magazines. He has owned some of it for a decade, dating back to his time at the School of Visual Arts, when he started his practice of incorporating them into collages. Right now, however, the whole collection is literally in a closet — though sometimes it’s a storage unit.
These days, Silano buys the magazines primarily online. Often, he has to judge the book by its cover,