After looking through some of Stephen Shore's photos, I feel that he often looks at things that people make that are basically just ugly. The colors in this image really work for that theme. We can tell that the person who decorated weighed the color relationships. The yellow of the couch brings out the colors in the trophies. The paneling is allied to the couch and the carpeting. But although these colors have a logical relationship, they're disgusting together. The decorator also had a theme in mind when choosing objects for the room. A wilderness theme is evoked through the mural and the trophies on the opposite wall. This wilderness theme is obviously very contrived though and comes off as cheap.
Even though the scene itself evokes a kind of disgust, it photographs in an interesting way and calls the viewer to wonder about the person who put all of these elements together.
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