Immediately I was amused by Ianna Nova Frisby’s new series
of Darth Vader-inspired sculptures.
And that was enough to make me love them. But the more I looked and the more I thought about it, these
are just so delightfully subversive on many levels.
They could be seen as a parody of the collectible Star
Wars kitsch sold on the pages of Parade
Magazine or the Lillian Vernon Catalog.
I’ve never been in a home with Star Wars collector’s plates hanging on
the wall. I doubt I could keep a
straight face. And then there are
all those figurines. For example, there is the one of the scantily clad Princess Leia as a
prisoner of Jabba the Hutt. I had
the pleasure of seeing Carrie Fisher’s one-woman show and sat two rows behind
George Lucas as Fisher berated him over those figurines (she never received a
dime for those).
I also love the feminization of the iconic villain. Particularly due to the generally
male-dominated, sexist universe depicted in that galaxy, far, far away – there
are few females in the Lucasverse and even fewer strong, independent women. It’s worse than Mad Men.
You can get a look in person at Luke’s Mother at Axis Gallery up in Sacramento for the 20th
Annual Pink Week happening in November.
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