Imagining religious, socio-political, gender, racial “hot spots”, I mingle otherwise neutral industrially fabricated goods to alter context and vernacular.

"Grey" wall installation: waxed paper sandwich bags/hair nets

"Neutral" wall installation: Brownie Ice Cream sandwich bags, waffles, parrots

"Period Piece" wall installation: Kotex napkins, applique, hair, beads, collage

"Souvenir" found objects, fiber, wax, beads

"Fashion Alert" Kotex napkins, spent bullet cartridges, beads, fabric, hair, embroidery.

“Louise Lawler,....taught us long ago that context is all, that the meaning of art is dependent on the strategies of display and distribution within which it finds itself.”

Referred to by Helen Molesworth, Maisie K. and James R. Houghton Curator of Contemporary Art at the Harvard University Art Museums, in Hidden Agendas, p.140 Frieze September 2007

LaThoriel Badenhausen
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