THOMAS CUTHBERTSON

Bradley Oliver-White's room

A Room

The room is relatively claustrophobic in its placement of furniture and objects, little walking room is left and most of what is described is in fairly close proximity to each other. It is within the roof space of a building, so hence that shape defines the area somewhat.

To the right of the room, the roof leans in at a 45 degree angle, in the middle – a medium square shaped skylight providing the sole source of illumination. In the centre of the flat ceiling a spherical white light shade hangs from the ceiling, only its bottom half in view.

The leaning wall recedes by about two feet where the skylight is (we see only the flat plane of the receding wall surface illuminated by the skylight but not the skylight itself, this forms the front right edge of the picture) underneath it a two cushioned green sofa with a book placed on the cushions far side. In front of this, a basic dark mahogany coffee table with two small indoor green houseplants placed at either opposite ends and two books placed in and around the centre (the plants leaves are large and flat on the further distant one, and smaller/slim and longer on the nearer one). Below the table are three more books, placed haphazardly but close together.

To the far right end of the room, behind the end of the sofa and against the right wall underneath the leaning part, is a small bookcase full of books.

In the far right corner a rather large and leafy potted plant (about the same height as the bookcase itself) To its left side, another slightly larger bookcase against the wall again full of books but with one large erect leafless and branchless plant, possibly a cactus, and some small indiscernible objects also on top.

To the left of this a smaller in height set of draws (3 draws). On top, a collection of papers and books placed in a seemingly random fashion. A large A2 piece of paper sits on top of the pile bending downwards and towards us.

In the far left corner up against the left and back wall a high white table used for writing and computer work, a flat-screen desktop sits in the centre, at the back, two small black box shapes sit at either end of the desk (possibly speakers?). Other larger black boxes (possibly folders and such) lie around the desk. The underneath of the table is empty and unblocked by any aspects other than the legs of the desk. The desk is accompanied by a swivel black office chair, small backed and slightly pulled out.

Towards us and in front of the desk, another small dark wood table, on which a medium sized widely spread out leafy plant sits, reaching to just above the height of the white table behind it. Underneath are what appear to be 12” records, the flat surface of which one faces us making whatever sits behind – out of sight.

In the foreground of this picture (reaching from the start of the image to the white desk) on the left wall is a flat white radiator. On the same wall above it are several A4 printer copies of romantic era paintings (Turner etc) though due to the perspective none of them are properly visible.

A similar collection adorns the far end wall, in which these images are in more in sight. Several inches above the white desk is a medium sized cork board with one white piece of paper hung upon it, towards the right of its surface area. The A4 prints are placed thus on this wall: 3 above the corkboard, 1 immediately to the right of it, 2 more one on top of another are further right still and above the set of draws, several inches above them are two more placed side by side (landscape). One more hangs about a foot above the second book shelf directly at the end of the cactus’s length.