People spilled outside the gallery, sipping champagne and laughing softly. It was located in the back courtyard of a prewar building in the old part of city, and I was glad Eva had given me directions to it. I had the distinct feeling that I'd been there before, but I didn't fully recognize the place: the windows and entrance had been covered over with black paper so that you couldn't see in. Next to the door was a large sign warning: AT LARGE SHOW NO MINORS 18 AND UP ONLY!
It was crowded inside. The first room opened on a single, singularly decorated wall, around which clustered more than 20 viewers. On the wall was a blown-up print of a photo of an absolutely gigantic penis. The image was in black-and-white and measured more than 15 feet across and 10 feet down, but even so, the huge organ's qualities were shocking. The shot focused squarely on the crotch of an unidentified man, his arms and hands out of frame, standing against a bleach white backdrop. His prodigious dick drooped out from a curly mass of black pubic hair down to his knees, its bulbous, exposed glans staring obscenely out from the bottom of the shaft.
I was riveted by the enormity of it, and suddenly shook myself out of my reverie. Around me thronged dozens of other gallery goers, all staring shamelessly at this massive, evil-looking cock. I was at once amazed and slightly disgusted. One woman stared up at it, unmoving, her mouth hanging open. Next to her was a sign announcing the exhibit: "At Large," a photo series by Eva Sondesstrom.
I left the room only to find myself in a maze of long gallery hallways, all filled with oversized portraits of that same giant, slightly repugnant prick. In the rest of the photos, the subject was extended to its full length, and although the size was difficult to estimate due to the changed size of the prints, it was still impressive--I guessed it was well over a foot long, and at some points the trunk was as wide as one of the champagne bottles carried about by the workers there. The man's hands were never visible. It was as if his cock was some distended, horrible idol, utterly anonymous, his pubic hair neatly trimmed back, the better to display it.
The halls were full of women, agog and cackling. Though there were some men hovering around, it was clear that many more females were in attendance at the opening. All seemed to flow about in a slight daze, as if weirdly enchanted by the sight of that huge dick and its flesh-ringed, menacing head. In some cases the head shone, as if flashing back a bit of the camera's unmoving gaze.
Each portrait had a different title that leaned toward the absurd. In "Mug Shot," the erection was shown facing the camera and then again in profile, as in a police lineup. "Ring toss" had a woman's hands holding a ring ready to throw it onto the outstretched cock, on which another two large rings already swung. "At The Window" found the humongous dickhead pushed up against the glass of a house; the back of a blonde woman's head could be seen staring up a the window. "Hole in wall" had the dick protruding from a glory hole, while "On A String" had it bound tightly with a string that stretched out of frame.
As I moved into another room, the photos and situations became even more elaborate. In "Moustache," the focus was on a woman's smiling face looking straight at the camera; the huge dong ran from left to right directly under her nose, and the size disparity of her face to the the cock merely emphasized how big it truly was. In "Eye To Eye," the same female model was lined up with her pupil looking straight into the eye of the cock, like some ridiculous showdown. In "At The Movies," the model was shown at the top right of a theater filled with numerous other people, reaching into a very large tub of popcorn--and instead finding that supersized dickhead sticking out and up at her (in this case, the nameless man's bare chest and torso were visible, but his hands were out of sight.) In all of them, the cock took on this Dadaist, alien quality, like some strange animal that is being photographed in the wild, unknowing and unreasoning in its raging heat.
The gallery was full of people just standing there in wonder, staring up at myriad images of this monster prick. I thought I noticed one older woman rubbing herself gently between the legs as she gazed longingly at one of the photos.
I moved on through the crowds of onlookers. One photograph titled simply "Sandwich" had the schlong stuck between pieces of bread, piled high with assorted toppings and sitting on top of a plate. "Snake in the Grass" saw the giant cockhead sticking out from tall grasses (the dick's owner must have been lounging somewhere in the grass, otherwise concealed but for his cock), while "In the Headlights" saw the dick up against a brick wall, illuminated only by a car's headlights. In a photo called "Stick Shift/Pole Position," the blonde model was seen from behind--the photographer must've been in the back seat. The woman was reaching into the passenger seat, her tiny hand futilely attempting to hold onto his vast erection.
"Long Drink of Water" was a shot of the cock being jammed into a glass, which caused the water inside to overflow onto the man's forbidding testicles. "Money In The Meter" was the first, ostensibly hardcore shot of the series: an action still of the dick ejaculating onto a parking meter, come splattering on the handle. An older man with a safari hat and a woman I assumed was his wife, a slightly pudgy but attractive little piece, stood there gaping at it. "Isn't that illegal?" the woman wondered breathlessly.
"Pour A Stiff One" had the blonde again wrestling with the cock, this time wrenching it and trying to coax some ejaculate into a cocktail glass. "In The Rain" simply showed the member reclining on a street in a downpour, droplets streaming down the fully erect dick. "Snowballs," meanwhile, found the dick and its attendant gonads reclining in the snow. I was left to ponder how this massive hunk of meat could possibly stay hard in such freezing temperatures.
"Out Of The Box" featured the blonde woman holding her hands up in fright as the dickhead emerged, a glistening tear of come from its tip, from an unwrapped gift box. "Rising Sun" showed the cock in relief, a silhouette, standing straight up, the sunrise somehow miraculously captured behind it.
