LAUREN SCANLON
Sweet Torment VII Prairie Center Studio July 2011 Dare I Be Happy? Installation view at Illges Gallery, Columbus State University Dare I Be Happy (another detail) Dare I Be Happy (Detail) Fever (Sarah I) Wilda II (The Love Battle) The Sheik's Captive (Diane I) Sweet Torment II Lorraine I (A Girl Alone) Sweet Torment III Lorraine II (A Girl Alone) Southern Nights The Girl at Goldenhawk (Jaine I) White Rose of Winter (Julie I) The Sheik's Captive Plantation Paradise Silver Sty Romance Novels - Installation image Romance Novels - Installation image detail Sheets - detail Prisoner of the Mind Reluctant Wife Unwilling Bride The Sheik's Captive (in progress) The Sheik's Captive (in progress) 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

(Papercutting, Painting)
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).



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

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