It is with a mix of accomplishment and sadness to announce that I have finally completed and have begun dismantling the one feature of my apartment that I’m most proud of: The Wall of Excitement, (2010-2020), a collage of corporate enthusiasm. It has given me many years of joy.
It is not an exaggeration to say that the Wall of Excitement is something that has come to define me in the minds of every friend and family member who has ever been to my home. Loved ones ask me about it all the time, and send excited clippings my way to add to the collection
After my boyfriend moved in, he began contributing by adding clipped-out text snippets from magazines, which added another layer of magical and commentary
Every morning I’d eat breakfast or drink coffee and look at this wall, and find something new or forgotten and it’d make me laugh. The oldest ones have pins instead of tape, back before I started thinking “Oooh shit my security deposit”
It started with this picture from a cable flyer that came in my rental brochure, but really came into focus with this huge and terrifying supermarket flyer
I think my longtime favorite addition has been this piece, two grown ass men playing football at a dinner table in front of an obviously suffering wife