The Daily Photoist: John and Mary

Each weekday morning, we pick a recent image from the Torontoist Flickr Pool and feature it here on the site. It's our way to give the many excellent photographers in our pool the attention they deserve!

We spent quite a bit of time yesterday surfing the photo stream of Toronto photographer UrticaDioica (Alexandra T). There's a fascinating range to her work, some images are artistically manipulated and collaged in Photoshop, others more straightforward pics. In either case there's a professional confidence in all her work. Which brings us to this photo of a junk shop window.

Here, using a couple of mannequins, a gold mirror, and a reflection, she's created an photo of the iconic holy trinity.

And there's much else you could read from this -- the symbolic elements are all here: the barely-there figure of John, the naked Jesus baby at the centre of attention, the spirit of Mary hovering over him, or Him, as it were, in that great holy mirror -- a hodgepodge raised to divine status?

Or should we say, religion reduced to junk-shop clutter?