The Broken Girl
Have you seen this image? She shows up occasionally in advertisements on the web for some sort of mortgage company or something. There she is, next to a big banner that invites the reader to click on the link to refinance their house or something like that. When she pops up on the screen, either within my browser window or in a pop up ad, I am always taken aback just a little bit. Something is wrong with the way she is put together, don’t you think? The angle of her head, against the angle of her torso, plus where she is holding her arms - it is all so odd. I’ve never seen anyone stand that way, or even move through that body position on their way to another position. It is so strange. Everytime I see it I wonder what possessed the graphic artist to choose this particular photo for the ad. Was it the only one they had? Was she making a funny face in every other picture they took of her, except this one? Or, did they do it on purpose? Did they pick this photo with her body in such a strange contortion so that it would catch my attention and force me to look at it? Unfortunately, I’m always so distracted by the strange and broken posture of the woman in the picture that I never manage to figure out what the advertisement is about.
