Laissez les Bon Temps Rouler, a French phrase translated into English as “Let the Good Times Roll,” is primarily associated with the celebratory Cajun/Creole festivals surrounding Mardi Gras in New Orleans. Kimberly Morris, the 2018 Cerritos College Art+Tech Artist-in-Residence, pulling from her own unique cultural connections to that region, doesn't just appropriate the popular phrase as the title for her exhibition at the Cerritos College Art Gallery; her work itself also directly references the various masking traditions frequently worn by participants in the Mardi Gras parades and performances. Collaborating with Cerritos College Cosmetology department students and faculty, Morris worked throughout the Fall 2018 semester to cut, bleach, color, and weave recycled and reclaimed human hair into an assortment of Mardi Gras-inspired masks. Using the material by-product of the Cosmetology program, Morris invokes this Creole practice of performative masquerade in order to delve deeply into the historic and contemporary cultural issues surrounding hair as a signifier for racial and ethnic identity.