ABSTRACT
In a narrative about their company history, Sacred Naked Nature Girls, four women artists who have formed a triracial and multi-ethnic ensemble in Los Angeles, describe an incident that may endure as the mythic origin of their collaboration: ‘The women officially christened their group one morning at Zuma Beach, CA, when they spontaneously shed their clothes during an improvisation at the water's edge.’ The artists frame the incident as the primal scene for their ensemble. Suddenly, as if by magic, their individual bodies were reborn into one mobile, sentient, and tactile organism, which bore the name of their newly emerged collective identity: Sacred Naked Nature Girls (Plate 13.1). 1
