In the 1970s, I began an exhaustive pictorial study of gender roles in the mass media. I organized file folders into dozens of categories, which included body parts, products, fashion, food, environments, slogans, etc. Everywhere I went, I ripped up magazines. Hundreds of pieces passed through my fingers before I decided which ones to glue down. Layering and juxtaposing fragmented imagery into human shapes, each figure became a parody of femininity or masculinity. As the series unfolded, I coupled, grouped and displayed the images as a human comedy on parade.