Airheads

The term “airhead” refers, of course, to a dumb person, literally a person with air in their head instead of brains, and, of course, my subjects in this project certainly fit that description. But “airhead” can also refer to a landing area, seized from the air by the military, to await further reinforcement, exactly akin to a beachhead if that land was being seized from the sea. 

This is the second project I made at the National Museum of the United States Air Force. It's the fancy fighter jets and gargantuan bombers the grab attention at the museum but it was the mannequins that caught my eye, so detailed and expressive, some unnamed and unrecognized artist toiling away, their vision shared with a million people a year.