Guys Who Like Me

Scalable Mural - Archival Inkjet Prints "Guyrs Who LIke Me" is a project using appropriated auto portrait imagery from online dating websites. Once a user has chosen to "like" a subject's profile, the image of that user is archived and added to a mosaic referencing Robert Indiana's iconic LOVE postage stamp. The mosaic continues to grow for each subject as they continue to be "liked" until "love" is found or users choose to leave online dating. The project explores how images function on the internet and in the world as a means to represent emotions and "sell" love, or a particular user profile as well as to appeal to other users in order to be "liked" Questions of online privacy are also explored through the act of appropriation and republishing. By referencing Indiana's iconic postage stamp,issues of "love for sale" as well as copyright, dispersement and privacy of self portraits are explored.