STRAYED.

WESTERN CAPE, SOUTH AFRICA, 2015.

Our lives are governed by a capitalist system that is unsustainable and destructive. The storefront mannequin may well be viewed as the key icon of egoistic materialism in our time.
By placing a real-life mannequin in unspoiled landscapes, the figure is transformed into a metaphor for our money-driven society’s alienation from the flow of the natural world, and therefore, from itself. Vapidly mocking female flesh, she stands between us and Mother Earth.
We’re looking in part at what we have become. Both fragile and divine, elegant and monstrous. Home, but utterly lost.

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