This image pleased me from the moment I saw it on the hot street of a rural town in Maryland. It is now part of my series featuring voyeurs’ dreams that have come true. The empty dresses echo the gap between the living subjects here (the shopkeeper and his naked daughter), and suggest a narrative that does not promise future happiness. I presented the piece with the image behind steel bars in part because it divided so neatly into separate segments, sustainable alone, and in part because both figures are "in jail."
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