When visiting the two main exhibitions at the Met Breuer, and viewing them in concern to scale, I began to realize the way scale can have much more than just “big and small” impact in a piece, but also the control. In all three pieces I sketched I saw how scale was depicting a common theme: dominance. All three had something/someone, who was in control of the other. In the first piece in three below, on the left, leather bound a male. It constrained every bodily action, and referenced BDSM, which is by definition the domination of another. The artist made the figure almost identical to the proportions of a well built man. This humanized the figure even though he was concealed. The second image, is another domination, this one concerning torture, a man in leather boots and straps, having power over another stripped and hung by his feet. Even this image bares eroticism, with red bathing the naked figure. The final image, is domination through war, the man dominating the lesser holds a stone, as if to strike the man on his knees. He is in affect playing god over the other, his musculature is taught and pronounced beyond reality, whilst the man on the ground is thin and weak.
