The subjects of Mernet Larsen's paintings live in a parallel universe, where everything is emotionless flat and rectangular, or takes a circular shape, with little space in between. Emotionless people go about their days, hanging in a diner, going to site-seeing spots, flying about the city, fixing planet-orbiting spacecraft. But the space boxily bends in around them, inviting a sense of vertigo.
According to Larsen, these paintings abandon the ephemeral side of life in favor of the objectification and monumentalization of memory.
