Janet B

Late 2007 I think? This pose and costuming was chosen by the instructor, who I think may have been awful in a lot of ways and a few people came after him years later for the racism and misogyny in how he taught, to no avail. So I took that as a sort of, ironic neo-primitivist post-collapse narrative, titled after a Tori Amos b-side that had been getting some great live renditions that year, with a building behind them that was a few blocks from school that fascinated me because it had no windows. At the time I, like this imagined couple in the ruins, didn't know why, and even confused it with the nearby federal prison, but it's the AT&T Long Lines Building / now-datacenter. So this image revolves around this idea of obscured and tragically lost history whose physical presence still looms large (plus technology level contrast).