“Freud thinks primitive man preened himself on his ability to put out a fire with a stream of urine. A strange thing to be proud of but certainly beyond the scope of woman, who would scorch her hams in the process. Male urination really is a kind of accomplishment, an arc of transcendence. A woman merely waters the ground she stands on… Women, like female dogs, are earthbound squatters. There is no projection beyond the boundaries of self.”   - Camille Paglia

References to women’s capacity to direct a stream of urine while standing, in much the same manner as a man, can be found as far back as the histories of Herodotus. It is thought to be something that any woman can do, without prosthesis, and with little training. And yet this image of woman “project[ing] beyond the boundaries of self” in this way remains absent from collective consciousness. It seems that the concept of femininity dictates the possibility of female bodies, rather than the other way around. The subject of this body of work is the cultural feminine, riddled as it is with well-guarded contradictions and willful or feigned ignorance masquerading as innocence. The work is an attempt to understand female archetypes and femininity itself, in part though mockery, in part as a genuine effort to imitate, to pass if you will, as feminine, despite the biological femaleness that I possess.