Projection

Photographer Ursula Sokolowska created this series to explore themes of an unhappy, isolated childhood, like her own as a Polish immigrant in the US.  The thing that strikes me in these works is the detachment between the stiff mannequin bodies and the faces projected on their featureless heads.  It says interesting things about the mind-body problem, that our consciousness can only be expressed through these awkward, flawed physical vessels.

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