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Wasteland, an art novel, by Jason Haaf and Scooter LaForge, is a place you can sink into or try to leave. It is a time when you fell into lust and became glued; it can be a trap or an escape. Combining painting, prose, poetry and collage, authors Haaf and LaForge explore queer intimacy, anger and angst. From relationships to repetitions, Wasteland is an open invitation into a collaborative psyche.
Jason Haaf (b. Coral Springs, Florida) is a Brooklyn-based writer and visual artist. Largely influenced by diaristic writings and memoir, Haaf's work utilizes intimacy and confession at its root.
His debut novel, Harsh Cravings (Polari Press, 2022) is a 90-day diary taking place during the summer and fall of 2020. Can I See Your Niche?, featuring Haaf's cut-ups and collages is published by Trapart Books, 2023. Watchword, a collaborative unbound art book, featuring prose and collage was published by @ND in 2023.
His writing and art has also been featured in Truant, edited by Nate Lippens, Rendering Unconscious: Psychoanalytic Perspectives, Politics & Poetry and The Trapartisan Review (Trapart Books), Shower with Affection: Group Shower (Raw Meat Collective), and Hello Mr. magazine.
Haaf was a recipient of the Seattle Erotic Art Fair's Foundation Award for Literary Art (2025).
Scooter LaForge (b. Las Cruces, New Mexico) is a New York–based artist who has lived and worked in the East Village for two decades. Drawing on art history and classical themes, he creates vividly contemporary works across painting, sculpture, and drawing, marked by unorthodox techniques and striking, iconic imagery.
His pieces function as an intuitive visual journal, shaped by an agile, exploratory approach and a wide emotional range.
LaForge’s work has been exhibited at the Leslie-Lohman Museum in New York, the Friedrichshof Museum in Vienna, and the Spritmuseum/Absolut Art Collection in Stockholm. A feature-length documentary, Scooter LaForge: A Life of Art (dir. Ethan Minsker), was released in 2023, and a 30-year survey of his paintings opened at Lesley University College of Art and Design in 2024.
He also designs a celebrated line of bespoke clothing sold through Patricia Field’s ArtFashion Gallery. His pieces have been worn by Madonna, Rihanna, Beyoncé, Miley Cyrus, and Debbie Harry, and his costume design has been part of Emmy-nominated and Tony-nominated work. LaForge is a recent recipient of a Pollock-Krasner Foundation grant.
