I use the unvalued artifact of digital noise to render the photograph into a contemporary visual trope. Digital noise is false exposure on a digital sensor. The mannequin in the storefront window is a symbol of consumer culture. It is an emblem upon which all 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 mannequin’s form in order to reveal the nature of the boundary between the trance of the idealized and the real.
