And the intent of its creators is to turn the inside out, obscuring the humdrum surface reality of our lives and placing our roiling, incoherent private terrors on display.
Back in 2008, when artist Sarah Nicole Phillips worked sorting mail in an office, she discovered the artistic potential of a ubiquitous office supply: security envelopes".While tearing open the envelopes I became mesmerized with the large variety of intricate patterns printed on the inside, to obscure their contents," Phillips tells The Creators Project.
Inside the Lincoln Cafe, obscure alternative rock plays on the sound system, and decent funky art hangs on the exposed brick walls.
The obscure language, inside jokes, and ambiguity of Ladies Almanack have kept critics arguing about whether it is an affectionate satire or a bitter attack, but Barney herself loved the book and reread it throughout her life.
Many restaurants have violated the obscure restriction, tucked inside the city code, which has not been widely enforced.
When the Clippers took the court before Game 4 of their playoff series with the Golden State Warriors on Sunday, the Clippers warmed up with their team-issued gear worn inside out to obscure the team name and logo.
The Clippers pulled off their blue warmup jackets in unison and discarded them in a pile near midcourt before the game in a symbolic protest, revealing red warmup shirts turned inside out to obscure the logos.
Inside were old WPA guides, diaries, local histories, newspaper clippings and esoterica to aid us in adventures into the obscure.
Just as the Clippers had done on Sunday when they took the floor in Oakland, the Heat players all ditched team-issued, branded shirts to reveal that they were wearing warm-up shirts inside out to obscure the team name and logo.
▶ A philosopher makes the obscure seem obscure.
