Lamp Shop Alley

**Lamp Shop Alley is a location and anchor space in The Real Unreal**

“Lamp Shop Alley is a visually dense display of commercial opportunism. Shop windows are crowded with collections of doodads and doors lead to the unexpected. Advertisements for all manner of confusions layer upon each other as if from a dream. Need to top up on cash for all your consumer indulgence, the ATM interactive machine may be able to help, but probably won’t.”

## Locations

* ATM
* Hidden Capsule Motel
* La Strata
* **Lamp Shop Alley**
* Kunstkamera
* Mug Shots Plasmaplex
* Payphone
* The Greeter

## Projects

### Slumbermallow Blubberboom Auxillaropaline Damniarchaonalle

* https://credits.meowwolf.com/the-real-unreal/lamp-shop-alley/slumbermallow-blubberboom-auxillaropaline-damniarchaonalle/

### The Cheese Hole

"The Cheese Hole is a jazz club located in the ally. The club opened it’s grate in 1951, by Rat Gordon. It has hosted some of the most legendary shows, and is one of the oldest operating jazz clubs in Texas."

### Bolection Hot Food Bodega

"This work is focused on the relationship we have with mass-produced objects and our dreams. Our dreams are always pulling from our memory banks to create the spaces, beings, and objects that we create in them. Dream time is where confusing objects, unexpected encounters and impossible spaces form. The additive process of this sculpture takes mass produced materials as individual sculptural chunks and then combines them to build a dream construct. Using these materials to create partial architectural constructions, conglomerated toys and kit bashed scale models, it represents the trash heap-like nature of memory."

### Cosmic Transilience

“Cosmic Transilience maps out the experience of macroscale change. Drawing inspiration from the exhibit itself, the work depicts a unique abstract design while weaving a seam in the chasm between four different artistic spaces. Much like the transitory location of the piece, the artist’s concept focuses on the many changes that were occurring in his life during its creation. In that same year, these changes became larger leaps. The artist’s work depicts the sensation of floating in space, far away from a home planet, yet not quite at a new one, caught in transitory development – while drifting in a beautiful cosmic void.”

### It’s Beginning To Look A Lot Like Freshmas

“As a child of the ’80s, Adam Palmer was very attracted to the cartoons, movies, and music videos he experienced on MTV, Nickelodeon, and HBO. He tries to capture the same energy from those influences in his work and disguises his influences just enough to allow for other interpretations of his work.”

### Live and Let Dioramas

* Our Ghost Universe
* Promise Me the Sun

### Saint of Lazer Tattoo Removal

* https://credits.meowwolf.com/the-real-unreal/lamp-shop-alley/saint-of-lazer-tattoo-removal/

### Saint of Tattooing

* https://credits.meowwolf.com/the-real-unreal/lamp-shop-alley/saint-of-tattooing/

### The Traveler's Gates

“I like to think of these gates as portals into the realm of the hybrids. "Hybrids" means half-human, half-gods, and/or aliens. This is a very vibrant, and fruitful realm. So these murals represent what it would look like to have a peek inside before crossing over.”

### Thunder Snow Communities

"A model home advertisement using sixties and seventies utopian housing ideals this sculpture asks the viewer to imagine an alternative to suburbia. While the form that is advertised represents an alternative to the tract home model of our current suburbs, it comes off as extreme so it can not be taken seriously. Using absurd jargon and niche representational styles it will not achieve viability for mass production. It only reinforces the idea that radical architecture means funny looking."

### Cherry Syrup

* https://credits.meowwolf.com/the-real-unreal/lamp-shop-alley/cherry-syrup-747/

## References

1. ↑ https://credits.meowwolf.com/the-real-unreal/lamp-shop-alley/#projects
2. ↑ https://credits.meowwolf.com/the-real-unreal/lamp-shop-alley/the-cheese-hole/
3. ↑ https://credits.meowwolf.com/the-real-unreal/lamp-shop-alley/bolection-hot-food-bodega/
4. ↑ https://credits.meowwolf.com/the-real-unreal/lamp-shop-alley/cosmic-transilience/
5. ↑ https://credits.meowwolf.com/the-real-unreal/lamp-shop-alley/it%E2%80%99s-beginning-to-look-a-lot-like-freshmas/
6. ↑ https://credits.meowwolf.com/the-real-unreal/lamp-shop-alley/the-traveler-s-gates/
7. ↑ https://credits.meowwolf.com/the-real-unreal/lamp-shop-alley/thunder-snow-communities/