As gender theorist Elizabeth Grosz writes: ‘The city is one of the crucial factors in the social production of sexed corporeality.’^[37] David McDiarmid’s location of himself in New York involved a commitment to the development of a mobile way of being a gay man, an artist and a cultural subject. His early interest in urban American gay culture, his extended presence in New York and his openness to allowing these to act on his performance of a ‘hybrid and dialogic’ subjectivity^[38] engendered a personal idiolect in his art produced from 1976 until his death in 1995.