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The grain, saturation, and fuzziness is intentional, but to explain I'll share an amusing story about this maniquen.

I bought her a few years ago when I was bored. There was a retro shop near an office I had and after one too many mocha lattes at the next door coffee shop, I decided it would be funny to buy the naked maniquen just so I could walk down the street with what appeared to be a naked lady under my arm. It was well worth the $50 I spent on the maniquen to see all the drivers doing a double-take.

I kept her for awhile and dressed her up differently weekly or or whenever the mood struck me. One week she'd be a sort of Harajuku girl, or maybe a bum, and the next week I'd dress her up as a revolutionary, etc. Eventually, she followed me to another office that was atop a steep hill with a great view and had a nice balcony overlooking a busy boulevard. I decided for her first costume on the balcony, I'd put a cheesy blond wig on her and just loosely draped her naked body in a translucent white veil. I secured her with wires so that it looked as if she was leaning out over the balcony a bit.

One day I arrived at the office to find she had been dismantled and her parts were hanglng off the edge of the balcony. It wasn't until later in the day when the police arrived that I found out what had happened to her. The police said that drivers had been distracted thinking that "the mysterious" blond veiled woman was about to leap to her death. Apparently she had caused enough people to be sufficiently distracted enough to cause at least one car accident. So, the police had come by in the morning to try and knock her off the balcony with their batons. They managed to knock off the arms and head, and cut the wires so her torso would fall to the side to prevent more distracted motorists.

This photo was taken of her on the balcony and I wanted it to look kinda grainy and fuzzy to keep up the illusion that she might just be real, or surreal. As it is, you have to look at it for a second before you realize she's not real.


Austin, Texas