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.
 

A post shared by Bill Young (@myhotelcarpet) on Nov 12, 2017 at 11:20am PST

 

Robert Motherwell, “Elegy to the Spanish Republic”
 

A post shared by Bill Young (@myhotelcarpet) on Apr 26, 2017 at 5:12pm PDT

 

Brice Marden, “Cold Mountain (Open)”
 

A post shared by Bill Young (@myhotelcarpet) on Mar 22, 2016 at 6:47pm PDT

 

Alexander Calder, “Balloons”
 
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