Nicole-Antonia Spagnola doesn't explain what we see—she throws it back at us. A noosed mannequin stares from a porch. Men study maps in a piano shop. Someone watched Billy Wilder's Fedora. Each dated entry of this visual essay is a deadpan chronicle, a hint, a re-run—part of a cycle where images inherit and reproduce themselves. "Intense," declared one friend. "What is it?" puzzled another. Just like a city, a screen, or a magazine, the images operate through collision and adjacency, where one appropriate response might be the one Nilo offered.

Nicole-Antonia Spagnola is an artist living in Los Angeles.

All images courtesy the artist.