Storefronts at night have an unsettling quality. They employ a simulated appearance of presence created through lighting, displays and windows, and this is ironically what indicates that these spaces are in fact deserted.

The bright spectacles in each store window promise goods and services which lay behind solid glass and locked doors making them unavailable at night. These spectacles initiate desires that cannot be quenched and solicit consumers that are not present, generating a play of signs that only point to each other.

The photographs themselves are similarly a play of signs and desires with their voyeuristic promise to disclose the private internal contents of each store which upon closer examination remain partially concealed by the limited view through doors and windows.