There are piles of laundry, cheesy window decals, and, in one case, a live raccoon in a cage.
Playing Evillene as a runway-ready diva in a fiery-red gown of the Thierry Mugler school, Ms. Arnold brings the right sassy glower to her sole song, the gospel-inflected "No Bad News," before disappearing, drenched and vanquished, into what appears to be a sumptuous pile of taffeta window treatments discarded from a recently renovated Four Seasons Hotel.
Lee's hair, which is piled in twisted mats at the back of her head, looks artful in its construction; light streams golden through the lacy dirt on the windows; piles of junk take on the lushness of mountain landscapes.
Grime on the windows, piles of garbage on the sidewalks, and scarred walls of dilapidated buildings compose the settings for Lisa's search for food and shelter, and also for her confrontations with the cold power of the police, with the relentless and inescapable violence of the streets, and, above all, with the deranging, identity-rending ravages of physical and emotional trauma.
"I went over to the site and couldn't believe what I saw," Mr. Saidel said of piles of fresh brick and window materials waiting for what has been a nonstop parade of repair workers.
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There were Santas in the store windows, in piles of fake snow.
But down below, all is ruin: discarded tyres, shards of glass from smashed windows, uncollected piles of garbage, eerily deserted petrol stations that have long run dry.
Other people sat in canoes, waiting to cart away doors, windows and piles of wood to be used elsewhere in this precarious community.
The American presence, it turned out, had stirred up a hornet's nest of resistance: hundreds of Aidid's armed men, perched on rooftops, in doorways, at windows, behind piles of junk, came out to take a shot.
