These lovely people with long necks and limbs, oddly shaped, bald heads with big ears are from a series that started with a glob of glue. I saw something hiding within the dried clear blob, so I traced it onto a tiny canvas. An odd looking woman who seemed poised and content emerged. By our standards, this woman looked weird, and that has been a lot of people’s reaction, “Why do they look like that?” I’ve taken iconic images from my childhood and created an “alternate universe” that challenge our beauty standards. Here are a few of my favorites.