In these Haloid Xerographic Etchings, Ambrogi deals with the social conventions behind and surrounding women, the female form, their relationship to idealized male roles and their iconographic representations. Through a mixture of photographic and illustrated images, these collages confront the actual and perceived roles of both women and men through the visual exaggeration of the subjects. Female figures are obscured by shadow or completely in silhouette to force the viewer to objectify them as icons and no longer individuals. Physical elements are exaggerated through perspective and purposeful distortion guiding the eye through the frame, making them no longer elements of the body but nearly structural. Male figures are stereotyped and exaggerated into positions and figures that typify male dominated power. Even the spaces that they occupy together challenge the viewer to examine the smallest details as stereotypical iconography. Through all of these methods Ambrogi creates a visual environment guiding the discussion of social identities and convention. The overall collage of the crafted environment takes these very real issues to the realm of the visually ridiculous, providing a comfortable environment for discussion. ML