i saw a small request by @feingeister for a talk on david’s room and like, i couldn’t resist. i’ve talked about food before so a room isn’t that weird. right?
in any case, the first thing i’d like to mention is that david’s room? it is humongous.
matteo is in the front but look at how far away david’s study/art corner is. what i like about this particular shot is that it already indicates a few things; david likes earthy tones in his room and david likes Big Things (like big windows and big lamps) and industrial objects are a thing (see that big lamp on the left). i also see a big painting (?) on his wall and i wonder if it’s something david made himself - the other drawings in his room seem to be, but they’ve always been small. so maybe he’s been experimenting in his art too!
next up is the next shot, and honestly - a pretty vague, but what i do appreciate is the beaded detail and the plants. plants pop up in both matteo and david’s rooms (imagine them discussing growing plants together) but david appreciates the flair of a Big Plant.
now this shot though: it assembles everything together in what david’s room is, for me. he hasn’t touched his walls at all, there’s no real paint and there’s cracks in it, but i do think david made the conscience decision not to tinker with it. he probably can’t afford to in any case but also - he’s nifty. he takes stuff from outside and brings it in; as is the case with what seems to be the iron fence in this shot; he must’ve cleaned it and decided to use it as a decoration for a wall. he once again uses his love of plants and his arts, something that is clearly very personal to him. he makes the room feel lived in - the room itself is breaking apart but the stuff in it is very significant to him as a person and i think he’s got a story for every thing he brought in.
no artist’s room is complete with an Artist Table with Artsy Stuff. once again, his love for industrial and earthy colours shine through. perhaps the only things he actually spent money on although i suppose a lot of things in here can also be seen as something he took from the outside! his table is in front of the window too (whereas matteo’s table is kind of randomly in the middle of his room); it gives him natural lighting to use when drawing i suppose; and maybe immediate inspiration too. as we might see in the next shot.
another shot of his art. this is david probably being one of those artists who go outside to walk around, pick a spot, and start drawing. he’s only got three drawings on it as of yet, but it seems like this is gonna be his Drawings Wall. these don’t necessarily seem to be sketches either; he even used more colour than he did before matteo came into his life.
neither of david’s bedding covers seem to be very Ikea-esque (like what Most People would have); so he’s got an eye for special bedding. especially the left one is something i can see being gifted to david by someone in his family, or maybe his godmother. once again, the earthy colours, but then there’s blue too! interestingly enough, you’d maybe see this as something that clashes but it’s the industrial colours (blue/greyish) mixing with the earthy colours, with patterns. and it turns out: matches quite well! (like a metaphor for david and matteo i suppose lol).
okay so finally my true thoughts come out: how fucking enormous is david’s bed? it looks like it can fit five people in there. i don’t know why he’d hang out in matteo’s room all the time when he has this Bed for Giants with Four Pillows to use. how Lavishly Big. the ok.cool squad would want a sleepover party. but i digress. apparently both matteo and david got hot bc the white sheet they use the night before is No More. i want to call your attention to david’s side though; it seems like he’s got a picture there - it’s pretty impossible to see what’s on it but maybe a picture of himself? also, once again; david does something nifty! his bedside table is actually a sound box. can you imagine him finding this outside, cleaning it up, and repurposing it like this?
that’s what makes david’s room what it is. his room actually indicates something about him that he himself might have never thought about himself: even though he feels like running and he never might be able to find a place that he can call home - he’s actually pretty adept into making a room, a space, a home from a room that on the surface looks like it needs a lot of patchwork into a space that is intrinsically him. it’s not what the room is, it’s what he brings into it that makes it a home. it’s not without reason that we finally saw his room when he really allowed matteo in. matteo is part of that too.
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