[7] A critic in Flash Art reviewed the installation unfavorably, commenting that it "left you with a sinking feeling that artists are fiddling around while Rome is burning."
So I thought that my Valley Girl would be a process piece where the video would at times be a dismal failure...because I could never perfectly re-create the original.
"[7] She also stated, "I wanted my video to expose the underlying myth of the original: that Prince Charming will pursue you to the ends of the earth...
"[7] Writing in Artforum, Bruce Hainley called the work "a guerrilla tour de force and a heady meditation on the simple act of doing something again" and praised it simultaneously "entertainment, a document of a time period and locale, a DIY manifesto, a feminist commentary with acute style, and a meditation on continuity.
"[8] In 2006, O'Marah worked with David Jones and Tim Jackson to create the video Faustus's Children, a take on the Faust legend.