Untitled #14 , Algiers, Louisiana 1992

Curator: Let’s turn our attention to William Greiner’s "Untitled #14, Algiers, Louisiana," a photograph of layered realities. The dimensions are approximately 48 by 38 centimeters. What's your initial take? Editor: It’s like a fever dream of religious iconography colliding with the mundane. I’m interested in how this commercial display, the arrangement of plastic figures, transforms into something else through Greiner's lens. Curator: The layering—the window reflection, the artificial lawn—gives it a sense of displacement, almost as if faith itself is being commodified and recontextualized. The South is a place where those lines often blur. Editor: Exactly. The materials shout "mass-produced," yet they depict a story of profound belief. It questions the labor and resources used to create such items. What does it say that we’re creating these simulacra of faith? Curator: Perhaps it’s not about devaluing faith, but about its persistence, its ability to adapt and find new forms of expression in everyday life. Editor: That’s a brighter view than I took initially! I'm still stuck on the sheer volume of plastic. Thanks for sharing this, it feels very relevant. Curator: My pleasure. It's a deeply resonant, albeit strange, piece that lingers in the mind, doesn't it?