I am fascinated by Medusa, first because her roots are ancient, yet her story maintains currency in contemporary circles as the expanse of her legacy draws in new audiences that find intrigue in both her origin stories and visual presentation in Greek, Roman and renaissance art. Medusa has been both monster and human, and it is the human version of her story that I find most captivating. I am interested in reclaiming the female monster from both its past and its present. The idea that women had (and still have) been thought of as being the same as monsters, naturally in their human form after having been (metaphorically) stripped of all physical characteristics that work to separate human beings from monsters.