Will Taylor my drawing teacher was the first one to point out Robert Longo's work to me. I immediately was very interested by his large size lithographs because of the movement and scale. Longo's work is usually life size or bigger. It towers over the viewer in a gallery setting and that in itself is very potent. The piece "Eric" at Wake Forest is particulairly intriguing. According to my sources online Longo took his friends at his roof and had them move and spin around while throwing objects at them. He then took pictures of them and projected the images on the wall to trace it. He then used lithography to create the final image. The stark contrast of black and white creates a graphic nature to the piece while the scale is pretty intimidating. After researching this piece i decided to create my own life size installation piece. I can't post it on the internet because my model was an actor and asked me not to but i can talk about it. I decided to reference longo in terms of size and having my model actually being forced into a situation (like how longo threw objects at his model i covered mine in honey). Having my model covered in a sticky substance changed how he moved and interacted with himself. I video taped him rubbing the honey around his body and had a very simple set up. I did a slight wardrobe change so that he was also that of a woman. The actor i used was very androgenous so when i dressed him in lingerie he appeared to look like a woman. The message i was trying to get across was that of discomfort from male sexuality. A lot of time in the media we see women exposed and acting sexual. Take that show that has hugh heffners three playboy bunnies in it. they are always half naked engaging in semi sexual content. We flip by and think nothing of it and go on about our day. On the other hand, if a male was to be in barely anything rubbing his body on tv, everyone would become extremely uncomfortable. I tryed to capture this by the actions of my model. I projected it life size and played around with sound to further the mood of discomfort. Taking a note from Longo, i really feel that projecting the body life size helped to create a dramatic effect.