It is rather difficult at times to give a thing the attention it deserves. I spend so much time trying to ignore as much as possible the people that I wait on, the heat outdoors, the mess of the apartment, TV commercials, TV shows, movies, tediousness, that when it comes time to pay attention, that time can pass right by me.



Interiorae is one of those instances. Graphic Novels tend to lend themselves to a quick browsing read-through. Before you know it, you've gone several pages of simply scannin

It is rather difficult at times to give a thing the attention it deserves. I spend so much time trying to ignore as much as possible the people that I wait on, the heat outdoors, the mess of the apartment, TV commercials, TV shows, movies, tediousness, that when it comes time to pay attention, that time can pass right by me.



Interiorae is one of those instances. Graphic Novels tend to lend themselves to a quick browsing read-through. Before you know it, you've gone several pages of simply scanning images and words and not really seeing, so I began again. In this story of several people living inside a nondescript apartment building, I realized I didn't really know who was who: I was confusing the stories of at least four characters who looked vaguely familiar the way people tend to look the same when you...wait for it...aren't paying attention.



But then I started again: okay, she's leaving. He's having an affair with a young woman he's bored with but slightly jealous of because she's having and affair with a married man. A married woman invites her lover to her and her husband's Christmas party. Oh, yeah! It's Christmas. The old woman dreams of mushrooms and of the dark being that is the soul of the building feeding on the dreams of its inhabitants. Then there's the white rabbit going from apartment to apartment watching lives unfold, both exterior and interior, and inviting you to watch with him. An invitation to pay attention as though you were there, as though it mattered.



All the while, a clock keeps ticking down to some unknowable event.