Comic culture, dominated by both male creators and audiences, and propped up by the uncredited labor of women illustrators and writers, becomes an echo chamber that amplifies sexist visual tropes. With its most notorious being the hyper-sexualized, and anatomically impossible poses female characters are routinely drawn in. And, as if trained contortionists, these characters twist their bodies in ways that almost always deliberately showcase their breasts, buttocks, and faces.

A Little too Flexible confronts the absurdity and flips the visual logic on its head. Using a Kinect depth camera to capture my own body in real time, I force myself into those absurd, bone-breaking “superheroine” postures. The software struggles to resolve my joints, resulting in a glitchy rig and intentionally messy animation. I ultimately want to highlight the anatomical silliness of these poses and moreover expecting any body, print, digital, or flesh, to conform.