Here is my much smaller bedroom. It is damson plum-colored, with curtains that combine English Arts and Crafts with Carnaby Street. I love these curtains. They shield my view to the parking lot below.
Interesting fact: there are Digimon stickers half-scraped off on the back of the door.
What you can barely see is a collection of chip-carved wooden objects from Friesland. The images are amazing on these pieces and go way back: basically they are sacred geometry in wood. Still done up to the mid-20th Century in northwestern Germany, the Netherlands and Denmark, and undergoing a comeback among carving-hobbyists.
I'm sorry to have exposed the Girl for the creature she truly is, but at least she is in good company. I mean: the mess. Actually, the photo is so dark that The Mess cannot really be discerned. The romantic disarray of the bed could have actually been planned. The window wall is painted 'Moroccan Mint.'
What appears to be a random grouping of papers, garbage, school bags, rumpled beds and abandoned clothing is actually a complicated code that is understood only by groups of related boys who attempt to territorialize their surroundings. Scientists are only now piecing together the subtleties of this little-understood method of mark-making...
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