“She Returns” is a revenge fantasy based on the psychological theory of the “return of the repressed” and a feminist reimagining of religious messiahs. This work includes ceramic sculpture, video, and oil paintings. It imagines how maligned folk figures and vilified women might come back to subvert patriarchy and environmental destruction. Some of “She Returns” depicts these femmes, “cat ladies” and others that cause “gender trouble” directly, as witchy crones and human-animal hybrids. Other works use a chair motif, inviting the viewer to imagine the femme messiah who might sit there. Her altered chairs invoke the queer body - a body that embraces non-reproductive pleasure labeled “dangerous” by repressive legislators. By altering these readymades into bodies and thrones that these new femme messiahs may return to, she encourages the viewer to imagine their own saviors, and to question received knowledge about their own selves and shared futures.