This, Then, Is the Main Problem
two chairs, coffee table, tea cup, three billiard balls, nine ball rack, two clocks, cotton,
two chairs, coffee table, tea cup, three billiard balls, nine ball rack, two clocks, cotton,
These objects are brought together in the domestic interior, the great room, to draw attention to the different ways time is spent. Carefully crafted crochet work is featured throughout the room: wrapped lovingly around the suspended teacup, supporting the billiard balls and rack, the Texas-sized crocheted blue bonnet, a porcelain doily laying on the mantle and marking time inside from the clocks. All reinforcing the time spent working within the domestic, the time spent beautifying the space with feminine accoutrements.
"Transcending our memories of all the houses in which we have found shelter, above and beyond the all the houses we have dreamed we lived in, can we isolate an intimate, concrete essence that would be a justification of the uncommon value of all out images of protected intimacy? This, then, is the main problem." - Gaston Bachelard