Three versions of a hotel room.

The one below shows the initial stage after the parts had been put together roughly. I see these kind of photos as personal reference, to remind you of the things that don't even make it into memory to forget - the hotel room furniture, the shape of the mirrors, the naff pictures. It's easy to dismiss the memory of an ordinary hotel room because we think it is too ordinary, but who knows what will be considered odd to the eyes of someone fifty years or more from now. They'll probably be saying things like: "Look at the quality of those fittings. Real plastic. Back when they made really good plastic that would last for years. They were skilled back then!" Or whatever.

The third image shows what was done with the elements - the tv and walls and windows. They were made more regular in shape. Squared. Straightened. According to my way of thinking this alerts the brain to an oddity, an artificiality to the picture. In this particular instance it becomes almost a sinister quality due to the rectangle of dark shadow in the middle surrounding the tv and the passive and distant aspect of the boy. Together with the inclusion of Disney mice and glaring yellow it takes on a mild David Lynch aspect.

I like the increased contrast in the boy's skin tones and shorts. In fact any increase in texture seems to be an additive to photographic meaning. Surfaces tend to take on the gloss of a photographic print rather than a comparative resemblance to their earthly form.