The turn of the nineteenth century was marked by a pronounced resurgence of neoclassical art—a contemporary take on Greek and Roman statuary. Carved from a single block of Carrara marble, the sculpture called Shooting Stars standing at the center of the Maher Gallery on the first floor, crossed the ocean for the 1904 St. Louis World’s Fair. An Art Nouveau-imbued iteration of traditional classicism, this classical sculpture is a great example of decorum, an aesthetic principle of appropriateness that signals virtue through idealized proportions and balanced compositions to convey harmony and order. Meier’s voluptuously contorted, abstracted bodies created in response to Shooting Stars propose a counter-narrative to Victorian notions of idealized feminine beauty rooted in a patriarchal society. Combining and manipulating a range of feminine-associated materials like pantyhose, fiberfill, and spandex, the artist invites us to consider less stereotypical and more affirming notions of sensuality, eroticism, and beauty.