DRAWING RESTRAINT 8 was based on the field emblem. The field emblem is a lozenge or a pill-shaped body with a superimposed rectilinear bar positioned over its central axis. The field represents self-imposed resistance placed upon an organic body. The DRAWING RESTRAINT project proposes resistance as a prerequisite for development and a vehicle for creativity. DRAWING RESTRAINT 8 was an inversion of the proposal, where the metaphorical bar was removed temporarily from the body allowing for an eroticism that the system hadn't granted itself before. In DRAWING RESTRAINT 8, stored energy is sacrificed for eroticism and the body begins to atrophy.