Chainsaw art isn’t for everybody. But when it is, it becomes an obsession. Just ask former Runaways lead singer Cherie Currie, who has been carving for the past two decades. Relatively a new art form—it has only been around since the 1950s—there aren’t many chainsaw artists (and even fewer women who carve) other than a handful of budget horror movie villains wielding gas-guzzling dismembering machines beginning with 1974’s Texas Chainsaw Massacre. Almost 23 years ago, the onetime corset-wearing teenage nymphet—who, along with her four equally fetching and feather-haired underage bandmates, kicked in rock’s glass ceiling in their sparkly platform shoes—found herself on the back of a motorcycle, speeding up the Pacific Coast Highway. As she scooted up the California coast, she wasn’t thinking about the multimillion-dollar beach properties to her left, or keeping her trademark platinum hair tucked under her helmet, wondering if her too-tight jeans were riding up, or whether she liked Shonen Knife’s cover of “Cherry Bomb.” Nope. Instead, she found herself suddenly transfixed by a cluster of wooden tikis, dolphins, and mermaids outside an art gallery as they approached Malibu’s infamous Kanan Road and a place called Malibu Mountain Gallery.