This work presents a fictional publication titled AMAZON, in which a magazine cover is paired with the pull-out poster it advertises. The cover announces the discovery of a retail artefact uncovered by archaeologists in the Amazon basin, while the accompanying poster reveals the image itself: a mannequin partially concealed within dense jungle foliage, its surface replaced by crocodile skin.
The mannequin occupies an ambiguous space between commodity and relic. Traditionally used as a tool of retail display, it appears here as an object that might be misread by future archaeologists as a ceremonial artefact or idol of an unknown civilisation. By framing the image through the language of discovery and media sensationalism, the work reflects on how contemporary consumer culture may one day be interpreted through the same archaeological lens used to understand ancient societies.
The diptych structure separates the media narrative from the image itself. The magazine cover functions as a device that packages and circulates the story, while the poster operates as the artefact being distributed. In this way the work explores how images, commodities, and narratives move through systems of media and commerce, blurring the boundaries between ecology, archaeology, and consumer culture.
