In 1981, Kagoshima began using gay porn magazines as source material for his collages. He explained that these were readily available to him while living in the West Village—so it shows his connection with his environment.
The erasure of the nude figure’s face can be read as a removal of identity from the form. The text on the right reads: "…plicity of expression. Only art has attained to that, will art neither divert nor deprave men as it does now, calling on them to expend their best strenght on it."
This seems to be a quote from Leo Tolstoy’s 1897 essay "What is Art?"