No time like the present to spruce up a room with some new illustrated prints, particularly if it’s a room in a strange house where you’ve inexplicably come to!
1. Here’s a fun, funky illustrated print that will brighten up any morning, particularly if you are slowly awakening in a room that you don’t remember falling asleep in. Let the bright colours and sunshiny playfulness imbue your morning with a sense of joy, especially if you have to slow your breathing at the sound of a stranger’s footsteps coming up the stairs.
2. This hand-illustrated, digitally coloured print will definitely make you say “what a fun print that I don’t recall ever seeing on my own walls, oh God oh God once more I have broken my vow.” As your head pounds from whatever booze or pills you could find to numb the pain last night, the subtle shades of the print trigger a memory. A seedy bar. A man’s face. An argument…? Better enjoy the beautiful print quickly, before you have to sneak out of a window!
3. Rise and shine! This lovingly-rendered bird features eye-catching colours and you could swear that it is staring at you in horrible judgement as you piece together last night’s carnival of depravity that left you trapped in yet another unfamiliar home. You beg the bird to answer you, to comfort you, to tell you sweet lies and let you cling to the belief that you are a good person for just a few more agonizing moments. But it can’t, cuz it’s just a bird, silly!
4. This print full of carefully-arranged words is sure a mouthful – particularly for a person who’s having trouble remembering where they were before they completely blacked out. How did you get into this house (or apartment?) sprawled on the floor underneath this tasteful print? Did you break in, or did someone bring you here? You admire the print one last time, before checking if the room you’re in is locked from the outside…
5. Here’s an illustrated print that is certainly for the adventurous among us, which is hopefully you, as you creep over to the motionless body you woke up next to in this wholly unfamiliar windowless basement. As you get closer, you realize the print is actually two separate prints, at the exact same moment that you realize the body is not breathing. You turn the corpse over… That face! It can’t be! You scramble up to gaze into the framed print, and your worst fears are confirmed! The face you see staring back at you in the reflection of this illustrated print… is the same as the face of the dead man you’ve woken up beside! How is this possible? Where is this house? And where can you buy this bold, textured, illustrated print?
Answer: Etsy!
