The mannequin in the storefront window is a symbol of consumer culture. It is an emblem upon which the desire and fantasy of sex and fashion are draped and from which complex valuations of body image are ingested. The mannequin is a token feminine used to impart cultural conventions. I dissipate the literal mannequin in order to reveal the nature of the boundary between the reverie of the token and the reality of the plastic dummy.
I use the artifact of digital noise to render the photograph into a contemporary visual trope. Digital noise is false exposure recorded by a digital sensor. A digital sensor records energy. It is designed to record photon energy, but it is also sensitive to other types of energy, the most interesting of which is cosmic noise. Cosmic noise is the wavelength energy signature that exists in any given place. It is comprised of the cosmic energies that pervades the universe as well as from human sources in radio & television broadcasts, satellite feeds, cellular towers and wifi signals. These unseen energies contribute to the rendering of my photographic imagery.
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