The painting is inspired by the rotating Mannequin animated by Fernand Léger from the movie "Dreams That Money Can Buy" (1947) is a Dadaist portmanteau movie, an unknown cinematographic masterpiece combining surrealistic and experimental elements. It was produced by Peggy Guggenheim and directed by German avant-garde painter and Dada film-theorist Hans Richter, who brought together artists like Max Ernst, Man Ray, Marcel Duchamp, Alexander Calder, Fernand Léger, alongside musicians such as John Cage or Darius Milhaud. Each of the world-class artists, in collaboration with the composer, creates one of the movie’s seven dreams.

In his series, “Adaptations”, Luoma draws upon art history to find his subjects for his reinterpretations. He has a penchant for searching for paintings that have historically influenced how we as a culture interpret art or have touched him. His choices range from Jacques-Louis David, through Van Gogh and Monet, to Francis Bacon and David Hockney. Luoma’s approach is a subjective rendering of how these selected paintings project their presence. Using his unique photographic practice, he abstracts these iconic images to produce something entirely new. The idea is not to duplicate the original, but to interpret it in the spirit of how it was conceived. His images literally grow from the inside out, as he never really knows what the final image will look like until it is printed. Luoma’s art is an exercise between the pleasure from the process of doing and the curiosity of discovering the result. "I choose my paintings in terms of how interesting they are in regards to the space within them: the direction of the lines and the elements contained within,” Luoma states. He is no longer interested in what is going on in front of the camera, but rather what is going on inside it. The content of his work is all about light as it touches the film. The exposure becomes his dance, revealing the music from which he is inspired: "First you compose a theme, then move to improvisation and the unknown, then back to the theme to complete the performance,” says Luoma. The works from the “Adaptations” series are meant to be extensions of how he feels, hears, and senses his choices from art history. These photographs represent 20 years of Luoma’s experimentations with light as his silent voice.