April 12th, 2008

According to the New York Times, a Swedish company, Kasthall, is displaying a “Negative Text Rug” which proclaims “I feel like everyone is walking all over me. I feel so low. Like someone is standing on me. I feel as if I am flat on the floor.” The words, written in white cursive script on a dark ground, were created with a “pneumatic yarn gun” (whatever that may be) and the rug is displayed in Kasthall’s New York showroom hanging on the wall, (making every word it utters a lie). The rug’s pimps are asking $6,091 for it, far more than it thinks it is worth, which is what makes it so valuable to the self-loather in us.