First you have to walk up 13 steps to come to the second floor.You’re looking up as you climb stairs holding the banister and it’s about 12:00 or 1:00. The sun is shining. A door comes into view,first the top then the rest as you are on the landing. Half a turn another door. Then you see at the very end of the hallway a black door that has a window pane in it with an American flag covering the window that is lit by the sun.
So you walk up and open it. The first to hit you is the stained glass windows flooded with sunlight and beneath a well made bed. The head board is yellow on the top so it’s bright. Turning to the right you’ll see a tire on a piece of shag rug and guitar leaning on the wall. Oh, yes, those big flower stickers, all over the closet . Then a smaller door that leads to storage. But before you look in you notice the color of yellow with an interlocking pattern made with triangles in black. The room is painted Burnt-orange. Turn again and you’re back to the windows but, there is a huge black circle on the wall to the right. The rest looks somewhat normal looking past the windows but, then came the left wall. There was a beautiful abstract. Squares and oblongs framed in black and inside the squares and oblongs were different colors.
Let’s turn again. Da,da, there it was. A wall of Marlboro cigaret boxes from top to bottom. Look around the corner there is another wall covered. The next wall leads to the door out. You get this feeling , I’ve missed something. The picket fence on top of the dresser, no that’s not it. You may puzzle for a minute. What part of a room do you not look at the most of when it’s nine feet tall? The ceiling. Look up and fall back on the bed and you will see black squares getting smaller and smaller and smaller to the center until you feel as if you were going up or it was coming down.
Hope you all enjoyed the trip.
Mom would show her friends the room and most said she’ll grow out of it. “Ha.”
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