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In my Performance in Nature series & my performance video work Bunny Girl I juxtapose a reverence for nature & recognition of the sentience of plants & animals, with the visual language of advertising, the fashion world, pop culture, subculture & more. With wry humor & sexually charged iconography these works explore sexual stereotypes & the implications of capitalism’s visual machinery, simultaneously exploitative & reductive, liberating & empowering. They contemplate the connection between the treatment of women & the degradation of our environment & suggest that what we do to nature we do to ourselves. They are shot in a rural town & community in Northern California where I was raised in the Back-to-the-Land subculture, & where I have returned throughout my life. I work in front of & behind my cameras as director & performer, & I style elaborate ironic costumes & characters for my semi-autobiographical eco-feminist pieces. The series has more to choose from & also come in 60×40 size.
