Rosenthal’s work is intimate and personal, with the purpose of mixing her thoughts of life with the popular ideals of mass culture. Yet, she is not advocating for a point of view, but rather allowing free association for the observer thus exposing the ideals of popular cultural. She commonly produces her works in multiples or varying issues. Rosenthal crashed a PerformaO5 festival, wearing customized image and text shirts 'Button Pin/Name Badge Shirts'. She handed out cards from her 1987 work 'Seven Provocation Cards' to the crowd. They had statements like 'Put It in Writing' and Do You Get the Picture' written on them.
My project stems from her performance piece at the Performa05 festival. I wore a black t-shirt with pinned excerpts from by paper attached to it. I made notecards with words from my paper I felt held a lot of importance to the description of Rosenthal's work. I had multiple color layers and the word printed in various fonts and sizes, to relate to Rosenthal's style of going back to her work and developing it more. In order to handout the notecards similarly to how Rosenthal did at the festival.
