Timothy Paul Myers
Alizarin is a site-specific installation by artist Timothy Paul Myers, in collaboration with Andrew Barnes, featuring furniture and everyday items – from teapots to suitcases – that are wrapped in a deep red felt. Initially drawn in by the installation’s scale, texture and bright red hue, visitors are invited to consider each carefully wrapped object, which is representative of hotel guests past and present. Installed in a corner of the hotel’s iconic lobby, these playful works at first seem decorative, but take on new meaning as we consider them as the discarded ephemera of life. Alizarin (named after a red dye obtained from the madder root) is not only an attempt to archive an object’s history, but also to encase the memories imbued in it. Myers draws us deeply in to the present by reminding the viewer of the fleeting nature of life.