© Owen Premore

Smokey Towels, 2010

Installation

Natural and synthetic yarn, synthetic filling, hotel bathroom.

I travel regularly for work.  It seems I brought the Portland weather with me when I traveled to Tampa, FL in January.  The locals were desperate to stay out of the cold and turned to smoking packs of cigarettes in my hotel room bathroom while I was at work.  This installation kick-started the hotel room interventions.