Babs Reingold incorporates a variety of mixed media materials into her work. For example her piece titled, “Hair Nest” includes 10 years of her hair loss, a seven-foot drawing of a tree, a fabricated 3-D branch, and a field of stones. Other works are constructed of glass, wax, silk, and organza or paper. Environmental catastrophes such as Katrina, and speakers such as Jared Diamond and his Easter Island lecture, inspired Reingold to turn from painting and begin creating large scale installations and three dimensional artworks describing themes of beauty and the environment. Reingold often uses hair as a signature in her work for its intrinsic links to DNA and its endearing symbolism. Many of her works communicate a frustrating lack of solutions and an internal frustration. Reingold asks the difficult question: At one point do we realize our self-destruction?