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Some things are given to specific morphologies through their reference to a sublevel of language-driven or behavioral abstraction. These objects exist in a state wherein virtually every aspect of their materiality as objects is dictated almost solely by their function as a
resting place for an alphabet of subterranean signs.
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What is this thing above if not an object/image designed to have the guests/subjects place themselves physically within a fantasy space provided by the
illusion of a painting? In a certain sense the subjects make a temporary sculpture of themselves to the end of eventually reversing their own gaze once the painting/sculptural tableau is collapsed into two dimensions by the shutter of the camera and printed out as a picture for their own visual reabsorption. The former subjects have done an about face, reemerging as onlookers into a fantasy partly of their own devising, and partly the product of social norms which serve to
protect order and promote
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Simulated reinforcement of social norms through vernacular dramaturgy, and the almost-
exact opposite(?)