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1990s Floral Living Rooms, Bio-Fused

A residential comfort study where soft furnishings, floral rooms, and living systems become difficult to separate.

SC-0428-DOMESTIC-02 · catalogued

A floral sofa in a wood-paneled 1990s living room, pink tissue dripping from its armrests and ribs showing through the back cushions in late afternoon light.

01/ 08 · drip

The upholstery has begun to drip. Nobody has moved the lamp.

Eight stages of the same afternoon. The blinds are doing most of the work. The pattern continues across the carpet and into the wall.

  1. A floral sofa with rib-like structures rising between the cushions, pink membrane pooling on the carpet beside a bright window.

    02/ 08 · spine

    The cushions have grown a spine. The family portrait remains unbothered.

  2. A skeletal ribcage rising from the back of a floral sofa while pink root-like tendrils spread under it across a patterned rug, sunbeams slanting through the blinds.

    03/ 08 · roots

    Roots have found the carpet. Dust hangs in the light, waiting.

  3. Close view of a floral sofa arm wrapped in pink membrane with a row of ribs showing along its side, a second chair beyond.

    04/ 08 · armrest

    The armrest is now mostly ribs. It is still warm.

  4. A floral sofa nearly covered in smooth pink tissue with ribs fanning from its back, in a wood-paneled den with a small television and a plant by the window.

    05/ 08 · membrane

    A membrane has settled over the whole sofa. The room is damp in one direction.

  5. A floral sofa with long branching root-like limbs spreading across the carpet, beside a floral armchair also trailing tissue.

    06/ 08 · reach

    It reaches. The armchair has noticed.

  6. A sofa with a tall fan of bone-like spines across its back and tissue hanging from the seat, in front of a window and a small television.

    07/ 08 · crest

    A crest has formed, facing the television. Nobody asked it to.

  7. A floral sofa lifted on jointed, limb-like legs with antenna-like growths on its back, standing in a sunlit paneled living room.

    08/ 08 · standing

    Late stage. The sofa is standing. The cushions stay in place, out of politeness.

The room is breathing through the carpet.

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