Crafting Gentleness

Saturday, April 15, 2006

My IKEA Initiation

Well, I am no longer an IKEA virgin. What a bizarre environment to walk through.

What a deeply seductive and carefully engineered labyrinth of identikit domesticity.

I will become so much more me by becoming so much like everyone else.

I did come away with some useful ideas for making stuff, though :)

Further reading:

The Riddle-Language of the Goddess Ikea
http://www.parentheticalnote.com/dabbene_goddessikea.htm

Ikea - a global phenomenon of popularity?
http://www.jmk.su.se/global02/jessica/popularity/index.htm

The pleasure and pain of Ikea
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/4254181.stm

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