 In 1973, Golden began to explore performance, body-art, photography and film.Her group of films, "Blue Bananas and Other Meats" (1973), extends the painted "Male Landscapes" into performances in which the male body is covered with an assortment of foods, much like the "Spring Banquet" by the Surrealist artist Meret Oppenheim.In the 1980s, her work focused on portraits and satiric anthropomorphic studies.