Based on a promotional still for “The 30 Foot Bride of Candy Mountain”, a sci-fi/comedy movie from 1959 that featured Lou Costello as an inventor trying to restore his giant girlfriend to normal size.
I’ve always been struck by pop culture stories of men (usually lonely geeks) trying to use science or magic to find and control (or even create) artificial mates — the examples are numerous, and could arguably extend to the Adam and Eve story. In this case there appeared to be some sort of computer being used by the Costello character, which reminded me of the trend among certain young men to imagine their own “waifus” - fictional girlfriends based on characters from anime or video games - which is rapidly gaining traction thanks to “chatbots.”
One summary of the film’s plot which I found online suggested that the device was also a “time machine,” and since the off-the-shoulder dress on the “bride” seemed a bit Grecian, and Costello’s limp bowtie struck me as somewhat Victorian, I wound up mutating the image into a courtship story between an H. G. Wellsian adventurer and a mythical goddess.
The title of the piece is a nod to good ol’ Marcel Duchamp and his seminal work of freely associated found images “The Bride Stripped Bare by Her Bachelors, Even.”