Rachel Perry Welty

Talk about getting immersed in your art. Rachel Perry Welty is an artist who has created a very eye-catching series called Lost in My Life. Welty takes some very familiar consumer culture items, like bread tags, fruit stickers and take out boxes, and creates chaotic and crazy patterned backgrounds out of them. But that's not all. She then places herself in the middle.

Part performance art and part installation, the series is an ironic look at how we consume and collect. “These leftovers form the language of modern life," Welty says. "Through ritual and repetition I collect, accumulate and represent the forgotten reminders of consumption."

You've got to love how she blends herself into the background, even going so far as making a matching dress and tote in the picture above. Note that Welty never shows her face in these photos. Why? She want to "emphasize the dichotomy between personal identity and the anonymity of consumer habits." We were able to get in touch with the artist to ask her a few questions. Read that interview below.