extracted from a family’s super-8 films, these images are from a debutant ball from the 70:s in brazil . a ball where girls are presented to society at their 15:th birthday. the piece evokes the imagery of velasquez and his greatest contribution for the universal aesthetic - the sense of melancholy - and this is also the spiritual dimension that distinguishes indefinably his characters, giving them a quality of distance. related to "kidnapping images", the work deals with the family as an institution and the private vs. the public.