July 15, 2008
Flowers in the Attic
Flowers in the Attic

Shawn: There’s a dissonance between decor and sexual persona here that’s troubling. Two competing entities are vying for supremacy and the more dominant will imbibe the weaker. I’m thinking Jo versus Blair on The Facts of Life or that thing that happens when a zygote absorbs its twin in utero, but then it still lives on in spirit and wants to kill like in The Parent Trap. Here we have jock-inspired nudie play up against Flower Power and our Bat Boy is doomed be KOed by his own efflorescent surroundings. The baseball cap, sneaks, and tube socks want to be the focal point, but they’re all undone by the robin’s egg blue table cloth, florid rug, and the crocus yellow draperies with matching throw pillows on the leather couch. My fantasy of scoring with a slutty post-pubescent Charlie Brown is compromised now and I feel a little more dead inside than usual.

David: During the 1920s, after a period of working with more subdued colors, Henri Matisse’s palette once again brightened. As well, his ardor for painting patterned backgrounds took on a new impassioned glee. All that went missing were the nude male models. Always we were stuck with a bare breasted female, usually with some sort of Moroccan turban on her head. Yawn. Naked men just weren’t a part of Matisse’s tableaux, and what a pity. Imagine what he could have done with a specimen like our homeowner featured above. It’s all there for us: the oriental carpet competing aggressively with the Clown Flower-like patterned curtains and pillows. Wait…! That blur of robin’s egg blue tablecloth — blowing in a breeze? A window or door ajar? Spectators watching the spectacle? And why not? So what if Matisse would pass this by, we at Lurid Digs honor the arrangement fully. Of this dreams and art are made. Now excuse me while I help this gentle soul to his bedroom. I’m curious if the curtains really do match the rug.
 
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