20.7.09

Something unsettling in the bathroom

The bathroom at my job has several, what I will call, soothing framed prints in it.  There's four of them, and really, no other theme than "soothing" connects them.  But that changed today, one has taken on a deeply disturbing aspect. The one that just happens to be best viewed when one is sitting on the toilet.  It's photo of  a damp looking rock in multicolored sand, a very dark rock.  

And today I just realized it looks exactly like somebody took a shit on the beach at sunset, took a photo and fucking framed it.  Maybe it's actually a Hirst, an Emin, or a Serrano. Or a film still from Pink Flamingos, from a scene that never made it in, a day at the beach scene. But I doubt it.