© Owen Premore

Giant Squid, 2010

Installation

Vinyl, cotton linen, synthetic yarn, synthetic filling, fishing line, hotel room.

My return trip to Rochester, NY placed me at a very different type of Residence Inn.  The hotel consists of several two-story quadplex buildings, and each “hotel room” had a mini balcony.  Instead of the institutionalized feel of the normal hotel format, this hotel gave me the feeling of living in a cheap apartment.  I felt that an occupant of such a room would be simply waiting for something amazing to happen, something totally unexpected.  For some reason invasion by giant squid came to mind...