Statements of purpose don’t get much more succinct than this one on Dallas-based pilot/photographer Bill Young’s Instagram:
I travel for a living. Stay in a lot of hotels. See a lot of carpet.
And with that compact manifesto, Young introduces his collection of photos of hotel carpeting. (I’d imagine this could be done just as well with hospitals, houses of worship, family-style restaurants…) Taken as individual images, it’s pretty amazing how some of them reflect the visual rhythms found in the works of abstract expressionists like Robert Motherwell or Brice Marden. Of course, some of them are just utterly craptacular, but I’ll leave the individual aesthetic judgments to you.
Robert Motherwell, “Elegy to the Spanish Republic”
Brice Marden, “Cold Mountain (Open)”
Alexander Calder, “Balloons”
More after the jump…