Man Ray and Marcel Duchamp's piece, Dust Breeding (1920) has been defined as a "Machine for generating meanings", (Campany, D. 2006) an image so ambiguous in its content that, conceptually it can be adapted to address many subjects, spanning many eras. In this current era of Post-Photography the image seems particalurly resonant in its reference to dust and detritus; subjects that the photographic medium is exclusively so adept at documenting.

As a conceptual footnote to a series of images from the fashion section of the site, this piece discusses the works admission of 'surface' as the predominant recepter of 'physical decay'. Ideas alluding to Georges Bataille's Formless and Rosalind Krauss's Uncanny are notable in this body of work, as are many of the ideas addressed with regard to Surrealism and decay in 1// detritus...