As we lay there in the dark, in a room marked
by ugly carpet, crumbling plaster, and dingy yellow walls, I was reminded of the apartments my husband and I shared with our oldest two children early in our marriage, always marked by aged, dated kitchens and cheap rental carpet.
Not exact matches
The work's many, complex lines of sight are in contrast with the more formal reflective interplay of an installation
by Waltercio Caldas, in which mirrored bedroom walls reflect each other endlessly, their printed words, «camouflage», «cylinder» and «boomerang», ricocheting back and forth to infinity across an
ugly blue
carpet.
The Norwegian artist has produced a line of
carpets strewn chaotically around the booth, which at least one spectator tripped over (that would be me), and willfully
ugly paintings inspired
by the suicide, a few years back, of a young New York artist.