My husband, David E. Colvin, and I moved to Germany in 2016, the year Trump became the President of the United States. One of the things we learned from the Trump administration was how to use Alternative Facts. It was this concept that inspired the design of our new home.
Dave decided that with alternative facts you can have inanimate objects giving birth to other inanimate objects. We embraced IKEA design and decided on a neutral and calm palate of brown, gray and beige. Our flat is made of proper stone and echoed incessantly. A quick trip to the art store and a delivery later Dave had hung all of the canvases on the walls to absorb the sound. He sat quietly in his new space before he came up with the idea for the living room: The Museum of Alternative Facts.
He started with the shadow of the lampshade. This he calls the Navel Stone, as found in Delphi Greece. It is known as the entrance of the spiritual to the natural world, a belly button. All of the furniture is painted to scale on the walls, some in different angles to fit on the canvas. The lighter shades are the pillows that live inside the couch or in the womb of the furniture waiting to be born. It is our little world that we call a soothing cocoon and home!
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