We’ve seen some peculiar things used to save parking spaces this winter, but a woman in fishnet thigh highs and stilettos? Not until now. A 20-something performance artist known as Madge of Honor poked fun at the perennial war over parking by dressing as a pinup girl and

posing with traffic cones and chairs and stools to save spaces. (The photos in her saucy space saver series, shot by Catherine Please , are posted on MadgeOfHonor.com.) “It started, as a lot of my ideas do, as a joke,” said Madge, a 2007 Emerson grad who performs in burlesque and drag shows when she isn’t busy saving parking spaces in ruffled panties. “It seemed like a great way to approach a hotly debated tradition in Boston, and there are parallels with social boundaries, public and private space, and

sexuality.” The photos were shot in various locations around Jamaica Plain and, believe it or not, passersby were mostly OK with her method of saving spaces. “One guy stopped in traffic and wouldn’t move until everyone behind him was honking,” said the artist formerly known as Mallory Hanora. “I was concerned about the reactions of people coming home and wanting to park in their space, but it was OK.”