Ever find yourself picking a Dora the Explorer sticker off your hard wood floors for the better part of an hour, only to discover there’s a Diego sticker stuck to the sliding glass door?
I’ve found stickers on windows, furniture and television sets. All seem to have been stuck there with super glue. It’s good thing I’ve got nails although I imagine, if this keeps up, I won’t have them for long.
The solution?
Don’t pick the stickers off. Just give your kid 10,000 more stickers and tell them to go to work. Then you can live in something 82-year-old artist Yayoi Kusama calls “The Obliteration Room”.
Kusama constructed an all-white living room in the Queensland Gallery of Modern Art and then let kids loose over the course of two weeks to decorate it with multi-colored stickers. You can fly down to Australia to check out the installation yourself or view the awesome progression below:
Of course, I don’t see any Dora stickers involved.
New Year’s Resolution #2: Throw out Mazzy’s current licensed-character-focused sticker collection and buy a bunch of carefully-curated dots. Then sit back, relax and let her go to town. Art is near.
Images and original story found on This Is Colossal. Thanks to @kevinblah for the tip!
To see more of her work, check out Yayoi Kasuma’s page on Artsy.
Explain to me how those toddlers reached the ceiling, please.
So you are saying, you don’t need an interior decorator, just several toddlers apparently on pogo sticks!
The last one makes me nauseous!
It was open to anyone under-18, I saw some very tall teenagers in a couple of the pictures I was looking at yesterday.
Hahahah – I’m with Alyssa…. My kiddos are diabolically sinister enough without access to a ladder, so I’m envisioning EVERYTHING at munchkin-eye-level (as was the theme of our Christmas tree this year since I painstakingly fought to put my OCD tendencies on the back burner in favor of a shared decorating of the tree!)!
That is very cool! What a fun idea for an art exhibit. I hope they have a video of the piece getting created. Would be fun to watch.
I can’t stop staring at it. It’s mesmerizing and very cool.
Just wait until school starts and the stickers of light bulbs with smiley faces come home from the electric company’s visit to the school to talk safety and electricity. Those are fuglier than Dora, and made, if possible, from even stronger industrial strength glue. A lovely addition to that vase you picked up at that pricey gallery.
None of those have glitter! But it’s still very cool. I’ve got the remnants of one of those round, orange grocery “paid” stickers on my car door. It’s been months.
Ha. Yes, thank you. My kids would have every single sticker in one 2-foot square. LOL.
I’d have closed the exhibit at the third picture. Then checked myself into a psych ward by the fourth picture.
I took a similar approach to the carpet in our upstairs.
Except I set the dogs and kids loose for ten years with various liquids (both internal and external).
It’s now a montage of stains, both beautiful and disgusting.
Actually, just disgusting.
My toddler apparently thinks I’m the art installation, as he enjoys planting stickers on me.
Amazing post, really like it… keep posting..