The slanting shadows that slice across this shop window are symbolically at odds with the name “Free People.” The three models depicted in the window display seem constrained rather than free. And that is why I made this image – things are often not what we would want them to be. The largest figure in the scene, the woman at right, seems to be symbolically blinded and made mute by the large black shadow running horizontally across the image. What is intended here as marketing icons of style and pleasure can, at a certain time of day, also become inadvertent symbols of pain and pressure. Such is the case here.