LAUREN SCANLON
Sweet Torment VII Prairie Center Studio July 2011 Dare I Be Happy? Dare I Be Happy (another detail) Dare I Be Happy (Detail) Fever (Sarah I) The Sheik's Captive (Diane I) White Rose of Winter (Julie I) The Girl at Goldenhawk (Jaine I) Southern Nights The Sheik's Captive Plantation Paradise Silver Sty Sweet Torment II Romance Novels - Installation image Romance Novels - Installation image detail Sheets - detail Prisoner of the Mind Reluctant Wife Unwilling Bride Lorraine I (A Girl Alone) Lorraine II (A Girl Alone) The Sheik's Captive (in progress) The Sheik's Captive (in progress) Gates of Steel  (in progress II) Gates of Steel (in progress I) Sweet Torment III Wilda II (The Love Battle) Dearest Demon The Awakening of Alice Once More, With Feeling Sweet Torment I The Dark Oasis The Dark Oasis - detail Savage Surrenders - Exhibition Announcement
Savage Surrenders (2010-2011)
ARTIST STATEMENT : Savage Surrenders (2010-2011)

The bedsheet designs are an entry point for investigating the pattern, structure and impact of a specific line of romance novels that I read when I was very young (10 years old).

This is one way of transforming the books by using air - cutting spaces that interrupt and allow air and negative space to create a new form.

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