Laurie Simmons did an album of photographs at the behest of the Brooklyn Academy of Music's Next Wave Festival in 1984 (let's hope this can return in the fall). Simmons took clothes they sent over, shot them on models in her studio, and superimposed them on repurposed iconic earlier works of hers. Two of my favorites which are now in Salon 94's virtual Frieze Viewing Room which opens today (finger's crossed these Viewing Rooms will have traction--LA's live Frieze where Salon 94 had such a smashing booth seems just days ago as time has blended together) are the Birthday Cake (dress by Diane Von Furstenburg) and the Bathing Suit (by Michaele Vollbracht). Though in a video Salon 94 has loaded on their IG of Simmons talking about the project the images are black and white, here they appear in pigmented color. There's something about these images that spoke to my current sense of displacement. Simmons has inspired me to take some of my beautiful on-the-road images from a pre Pandemic past which seems like eons ago and superimpose myself a la Zoom, makeup-less, hair askew, in quarantine to remind me of what's still out there, but that-heartbreakingly-- I can't access.

Images courtesy Salon 94.