Looking back on the projects I have done in the past while attending Hanover College, I’ve come to realize that I tend to gravitate toward the human figure alongside controversial perspectives. I have taken on strong topics such as depression, self-hate, general self-consciousness, negative body images, racial issues, gender role conflicts, etc. This personal research as well as the beginnings of my Artist Research influenced me to want to stay with this type of work. I wanted to find something difficult to talk about, take a stance, and execute. I searched for a topic that could potentially have an intense “wow” factor in order to me to implement a sort of “exclamation point” piece of work ending my career at Hanover. Objectification, cat-calling, aggressive sex jokes, etc. are present in the everyday life of females. The Pin Ups of the 1950s, as a specific influence, made visual, sexual objectification of the female body all too easy. Pin Ups were sexually enhanced Photoshop-style images before Photoshop really existed. So, remembering this, what happens when the target switches to men? Women have been put down, made inferior, and become the more self-conscious gender simply because of the uncomfortabilities that come with being a woman.