Word: plushness
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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Chang described the hardships her mother faced with one arm leaning on a plush red Loker couch...
...background, while the image of a waterfall cascades below. The oversize canvas has been set on the floor, leaning casually against the wall, so that at its lower edge the waterfall is cut off mid-drop. Lemieux wittily extends into the museum with a rectangle of blue plush carpet that begins on the ground where the canvas leaves off, its velvety nap now pulled in various directions and covered with the incidental spoor of footprints. The piece is a good-humored transgression of the viewer's space, and a clever juxtaposition of mass-produced objects...
...most powerful moments of the novel have little to do with the journey at sea. Faced with a father dying from cancer, Raban anchors his boat and rushes back to England to spend time with his parents and prepare for the funeral, noting the analogue between plush coffin and the luxurious cabin of his vessel at sea. He candidly discusses his relationship with his father and notes the various transformations over time, the final of which comes with the hardship of dealing with death...
...swagger into the main office, and see a security guard standing front and center in front of a huge escalator. We look cool, we look official, unlike the hundreds of people ogling the plush offices in the cold...
...saying - which gets me thinking about how much of MTV is image related. Actually, it's all image. Image isn't necessarily a bad thing - and if there's a time and place for it all, it's at MTV. The smiles, the bleached hair, the big purple plush couchie thing all are too conspicuously engineered, too much of a cover for something bubbling underneath...