This series of large scale images, attempts to question the nature of portrait photographs and the idea that a viewer can identify a sitter from the way they are dressed and presented to the camera as manipulated surfaces which convey queer desire and sensuality in the male face. Each portrait was produced with. A large format camera which invites a more formal encounter with the sitter. Their faces are staged, eyes dilated and mouths slightly open suggesting some kind of erotic encounter. They are presented anonymously to the view, each image consisting of a trilogy of 3 x 59.4 x 84.1 cm images.
The title for the work is inspired by queer theorist Edisol W. Dotson (1998) who when discussing male beauty in the modern era, exclaims that: ‘’men are meat, dressed up and blown up as objects of consumer desire’.’’ This was was part of a practice-led research degree completed at Edinburgh College of Art.
