Jonathan Crary discusses Eleanor Antin's video work, The Adventures of a Nurse, in which she presents an imaginative reconstitution of the self in a new temporal context, "fabricating a system of fictional lives which, by paralleling her own life, becoming incorporated into it". (8) Playing with the clichéd feminine personae, Antin manipulates cut-out paper dolls to tell the story of innocent Nurse Eleanor who meets one gorgeous, intriguing, and available man after another. Nurse Eleanor is the fantasy creation of Antin, who is costumed as a nurse. Staged on a bedspread and acted by a cast of one, The Adventures of a Nurse moves through successive layers of irony to unravel a childlike, self-enclosed fantasy of a young woman's life.