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"Latina Seeks Thug" Turns Craigslist Personal Ads Into Hilarious Artistic Commentary (NSFW)

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"I started dying," she says. "The things that people were saying before I even included a photo were just hilarious. The fact that a complete stranger will send a dick pic to a stranger is hilarious to me. I probably would do the same thing, though, if I had a dick."

Rondón is no prude. She's been known to send the occasional nude, but part of this collection is about exposing the difference between solicited and uninvited sexual advances, as well as shining a light on the unwelcome cat-calls women face in their everyday life.

"A lot of it, too, is reflective of things you possibly have said to someone or someone has said to you," she said. "You've heard it walking down the streets or someone's told you stories. It's very real, and it's shit that we all go through."

After that initial response, she added a photo of herself to the ad and continued collecting responses. She decided to test the limits and added another photo from her Instagram, one that showed off her butt in a bathing suit, but the post was soon flagged. After 17 hours, this signaled the end of the experiment.

"Game over," she says, "I had my fun."

Of the 101 responses, Rondón picked her favorite to blow up and print on 5 ft. X 3 ft. sheets. She then lined the walls of her space, an 8-foot-tall and 15-foot-wide former office, with the black and white emails. Repetition is a common theme in her work, something she attributes to her OCD, and certain lines or statements she found especially hilarious, intriguing, or just plain offensive are repeated in varying sizes and with different amounts of emphasis. The only thing not covered by repetitive, larger-than-life email correspondence are the windows.

"It's kind of like you're stepping into my inbox," Rondón says.

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Kat Bein is a freelance writer and has been described as this publication’s "senior millennial correspondent." She has an impressive, if unhealthy, knowledge of all things pop culture.

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