Discomposure, akin to anxiety and other emotive impulses, fuels these “phantoms”. Artists may use them to push otherwise representational images into unforeseen permutations, while allowing materials to help distort their appearances further. Amy Garofano’s installation in Telles's Martel window projectspace addresses the aesthetic implications of these environs while referencing painting and illusion. In a dialectic with latent ideologies in Los Angeles’s outdoor ornamentation, Garofano highlights our alienation from its formal roots, which never fully transitioned from theVictorian era.