“Idoru” Digital Print on Hahnemuehle Photo Rag 308 gsm
( 100% acid free cotton) 
Print Size : 29.5cm x 46 cm.
Andrea Innocent (a.k.a innocentgirl), 2007.

All images © Andrea Innocent 2005 - 2008

Idoru (Japanese idol, aidoru), the term often refers to female performers in their late teens and early 
twenties who achieve fame through publicity in the mass media, young girls are often plucked by 
talent scouts at an early age based primarily on their looks.
In Japan the butterfly is seen as a symbol of young womanhood. 

 "If he’d anticipated her at all, it had been as some industrial strength synthesis of Japan’s last three 
dozen top female media  faces. That was usually the way in Hollywood, and the formula tended to be 
even more rigid, in the case of software agents – eigenheads, their feautures algorithmically derived 
from some human mean of proven popularity.

She was nothing like that.

Her black hair, rough-cut and shining, brushed pale bare shoulders as she turned her head. She had no
eyebrows, and both her lids and lashes seemed to have been dusted with something white, leaving her 
dark pupils in stark contrast.

And now her eyes met his.

He seemed to cross a line. In the very structure of her face, in geometries of underlying bone, lay coded

histories of dynastic flight, privation, terrible migrations.”

“Idoru” William Gibson, 1996, page 175.