This work forms part of an ongoing street installation first pasted up in Portsmouth and Southsea in April 2026. Encountered without instruction, the work operates within existing public and visual systems. It adopts the visual language of mid-century Japanese cinema, staging a familiar conflict without resolving its terms.

NOW SHOWING – Godzilla v Giant Mannequin
A monster rises at the water’s edge.
A figure stands inland.
Both are enlarged.
Both are out of place.

INT — the Isle of Wight coastline near the Needles and the High Down Rocket Test Site.
GODZILLA — drawn from a long-running cinematic mythology.
GIANT MANNEQUIN — formerly positioned within Debenhams on Palmerston Road prior to its transformation.

The film is already in progress.
There is no admission.
You are already in the sequence,
acting out a script you have unknowingly learned.

This format is familiar.
But the roles are unclear.
One must represent threat.
One must represent control.
Which one is the monster?
Or are they the same figure—
viewed through different systems?