"Coconut Girl in a Pineapple World"Imagine the scene, it's a crowded shopping street in the middle of a well-to-do city. Slightly to the left of centre frame stands a girl dressed in high street clothes, looking straight into the lense looking forlorn yet obstinate. People around her are wrinkling their noses in a questioning fashion, bordering on disgust.
Obvious eh, but here's the kicker -
the image has no scent! So there's no way to know whether she really does smell like coconut, or if it's just a persona adopted to keep a distance from the viewer. For all we know she may smell like cranberry.
Critical review shows people assume this image is dealing with todays youth culture with overtones of race issues.
This isn't true. The image is dealing with the rise in agressive nationalism in times of economic depression, with the girl representing our economic stability, the general public representing themselves and the feature that there is no smell as the rest of the facts that would pinpoint growing jingoism.
Update: Yes, you can use this image if you pay me. This isn't the Orient and my idea's aint free.
