Jas Petersen is a visual artist whose work centers on the Fastgirl, an ongoing figure that has anchored her practice for well over a decade. Petersen draws upon the aesthetics of glamour and self-presentation while interrogating their implications. Her figures occupy a deliberate tension between empowerment and performance, reflecting how femininity has historically been both idealized and scrutinized.

 

Through posture and stylization, her work emphasizes the body as a site of narrative and control, and appearance as both armor and assertion. Not to invite approval, but to claim agency.

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In an era where self-documentation and self-exploitation is currency, Petersen examines what it means to control one’s image rather than be consumed by it. Grounded in personal experience and broader cultural observation, Petersen challenges traditional power dynamics embedded in representations of the female form. The Fastgirl functions as both subject and framework - a means of asserting presence while simultaneously deconstructing inherited conventions surrounding womanhood.