TERRI STOREY

Oliver Kellhammer's room

Room Description

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An attic room under the slope of the roof with a skylight cut into one side looking out onto an impenetrable coniferous forest. Sometimes vultures perch on a ragged fir that sits atop the ridge that is visible from here. The walls are covered in drawings and photographs of chickens and the post-industrial ruins of buildings. There are several low bookshelves crammed with a messy assortment of books and bound manuscripts. There is a large light fixture suspended from chains from the ceiling with four buzzing fluorescent tubes that simulate sunlight in what is a very dark and Nordic climate. The skylight and window are stuffed with flowerpots full of strange, bulbous plants that appear as if they came from another planet. Some look like strange, tessellated Christmas balls, others spiny and menacing, like cacti but even more mutated and violent-looking. Many have swollen, bottle-shaped stems, some exuding toxic resins. On a work table in the centre of the room is a computer and piles of notebooks and office supplies as well as several small vitrines containing botanical experiments of various kinds, including carnivorous plants straining at the glass and germinating cuttings and seeds of various kinds. On the floor in the corner is a large terrarium with heat lamps clamped onto it,  with a little ramp built into the side which an ancient tortoise uses to enter and leave. He has free range of the room and can be found snuffling around the piles of books and crates of assorted wires and electronic equipment that litter the wood plank floor. A ripped up swiveling office chair with a dirty brown towel on it is the throne of a truculent black and white cat who swats anyone who walks by.