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Cowgirl and Future Stories is
created through a combination of still images of my performance for the
photo camera and appropriated footage, relayed by NASA’s Voyager
mission, of the Martian landscape. For this piece I have extrapolated from
stories about frontier women, such as cowgirls and comic heroines, to create
a futuristic female character I personify in the work. The character sets
off a series of triggers by playing with specific stereotypes such as her
costume, the plastic chaps, and her performance, the lassoing. She is also
defined by the visual landscape she travels, the 3D animation of the planet
Mars, signalling deep space and desert, icons from the western genre. The
video projection plays on the myths of characters operating in frontier
spaces, outside the law, where rational logic is left behind to foreground
play and liberation.
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