An obliteration room sounds like my bedroom at 3 AM on a Saturday night after 6 consecutive hours of drinking. It is actually the name of an interactive art installation aimed towards children. Yayoi Kasuma created The Obliteration Room for the Queensland Gallery of Modern Art, and surprisingly, it has nothing to do with alcohol.
Kasuma painted a huge furnished room a brilliant stark white. Then, for two weeks the gallery invited a bunch of rug rats to put stickers everywhere. Ironically, the end result basically looks like 4AM on a Saturday night (colorful vomit) but I still think it’s beautiful.
I just came off a 9-day trip to see my family. I spent most of my time with my nieces and nephews, to whom I had to explain that old people just don’t have as much energy as they do – so they can’t take too much excitement. This was really just my way of making them go away so I could masturbate in peace, but I have to say that Kasuma’s installation definitely captures the vibrancy, fantasy, and energy of being a kid.
