In her DeCordova exhibit, titled Rachel Perry Welty 24/7 (on view January 29, 2011 - April 24, 2011) the works included focused on aspects of daily life, or what she calls "the business of living," using materials ranging from spam emails and grocery receipts to twist ties and stickers from fruit.
[4] The press release for the exhibit described elaborated, "mixing a Minimalist aesthetic with Pop humor, Welty's artworks uncover the poetic elements in the everyday.
In addition to these installation works, she presented a series of photographs titled Lost in my Life, self-portraits in which the artist is nearly camouflaged in sets composed of everyday materials, often featuring other artworks in these images.
The question around which the work was centered was the subject line of a spam email Perry received, and she was inspired to make certain formal artistic decisions from materials she encountered in the museum archive during her residency.
[11] Many of Perry's works are deeply personal, since the everyday materials or detritus composed in the pieces were collected by the artist herself, often amassed over periods of several years.