One function of culture is to form and inform vision. The function of vision is to elaborate, question, and modify culture. Our eurocentric society encourages a very specific set of preconceptions about the nature of culture and the content of its icons, objects, images and myths. My work then, is about woman and their place in the history of art and culture. As one glances through these histories, it seems that woman are objectified in imagery and myth - somehow thier strength is always their ultimate undoing. By appropriating these images of myths and cultural stereotypes and transforming them so they may be re examined and questioned, I hope to challange the very nature and function of iconic images in our culture and the ease with which we invest the commonplace with ritual content divorced from object and dependent on context. Many of my images are personal. drawing on my own experiences of being a woman in a male dominated society. By employing the use of strict formal methodologies I seek to seduce the viewer into questioing the role and depiction of women in western mythology and society. Working with dyptichs and multi layered digital imagaes enables me to confront these preconceptions and assumptions by creating juxtapostions between what have become cultural commonaplaces and visual cliches within the history of art and western society. My images are thereby inteneded to engage the viewer in a dialogue that questions our preconceptions and challanges our icons. That we assume the validity of ideas and relationships that have at best, at tenouous relationship to cultural experience is proof of the effectiveness of our social conditioning