That’s Hector de Gregorio, whose fantasist digital collage Love of Hermes came past me on Pinterest recently:
(#1) The male figure’s face is (a version of) de Gregorio’s own; the composition is packed with symbols and allusions of many kinds. only a few of which I can identify
Some of the iconography in #1 might be understood from information in the Wikipedia article on the Greek god Hermes:
Hermes is an Olympian deity in ancient Greek religion and mythology considered the [emissary and messenger] of the gods.
… his main symbol is the caduceus, a winged staff intertwined with two snakes copulating [sometimes crowned with a pair of wings and a sphere]
[AZ: Among the many female objects of his love was the love goddess Aphrodite, with whom he fathered the god Hermaphroditus — born a handsome boy, then transformed into a hermaphrodite, with a name compounded of the names of the two parents]
… Hermes also loved [many] young men in pederastic relationships where he bestowed and/or taught something related to combat, athletics, herding, poetry and music
Now, four more of de Gregorio’s dream-like, often highly theatrical, body-focused compositions — two relatively spare ones, two densely symbolic ones. Then some words about the artist.
