Mad Cow, Elmo, Laundry Paintings Threading popular culture with the spread of a bovine disease, Rosenfeld created a series of works about “mad cow,” “don’t eat me elmo,” and (wherever in the artist’s imagination this came from), “laundry.” Whimsical, powerful, colorful and with lots of movement, these spirited works tease the imagination, always leaving the viewer with something new to find, each time, as in Salute to a Stripe and Don’t Eat Me Elmo 1.