Monday, October 19, 2009

A little drearier

A good portion of my waking hours are spent in Milton Bennion Hall. It is a rather dreary, poorly lit place, littered with amber and white 50s brickwork, lonely whiteboards, fake linoleum. But the redeeming feature of the interior, the element I have connected with since the day I started working here, has been the doors. Each was a unique pastel color, and these solid swatches of blues and greens and oranges used to cleave the otherwise horrible hallways. They were not tasteful; they were inexplicably and endearingly and serendipitously wonderful, like when you let your 4 year old dress herself. The paint was not peeling. Nothing else has been changed. I walked in this morning to find every door painted deep, cadmium red. 

2 comments:

  1. ARE YOU KIDDING ME?!?!?!


    *exaggerated pause of shock and anger, dropped jaw, furrowed brow*


    I'm soooooo sad. 25% sad for me, 75% sad for you.
    Let's scrape the paint off! The other colors are toooootally underneath still and if we scrape carefully we'd be fine.

    I'm serious. At least expose a piece of color on each door.

    Now that MBH sucks entirely, I'll come visit more. I'm serious about that too.

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  2. old milton is my great great grandpa. he would be sorely disappointed, i think. why don't we believe in color anymore?

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