Imperfection Is Beauty
For me it started with Claire's Accessories startled to see a young girl sat in the shop window getting her ears pierced. Now every high street seems to have at least one beauty salon that seats its customers in the full gaze of the public as they undergo one treatment or another.
I can't understand why someone would want to receive such treatments in the form of what my mother would call a 'pippy show'. It feels performative, and it is. There is no notion of it being intended as public art but it could easily be mistaken as such.
Does this set up lead to more sales? Well the salons must think so or they wouldn't do it.
I want to stop and stand and stare right in and were it actually a 'performance' I would but find I can only glance furtively as I pass on by towards the market place.
here comes the weekend
a slice of cucumber
on each eye
Little Onion
Loughborough
September 2016
Photograph: Paul Conneally
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