Genur.art

backroomstyle, backroomstyle, the empty white-tiled poolrooms with still turquoise water. Camera: a snapshot at standing eye height looking along a shallow pool toward tiled archways that repeat into the distance, wide lens. Setting: the poolrooms of the backrooms: a silent, endless indoor pool hall made entirely of small square white tiles: floor, walls, low ceiling, pillars, archways and stepped edges of shallow pools of perfectly clear still turquoise water. It repeats into the distance in every direction. Light: soft, even, sourceless white light; the water throws faint moving turquoise caustics on the tiles; very quiet and dreamlike. There is no one in the frame: the space is completely empty. What is happening: Nothing moves. The water is perfectly still. Tiled steps lead down into the shallow pool in the foreground and archway after archway repeats beyond it. Text: there is no text anywhere in the image except what is described above: no captions, no logos, no brand names, no readable writing on clothes, posters, books, packaging or signs, and no gibberish letters. Image quality: it looks like the original backrooms photograph: a single amateur snapshot from an old cheap digital camera, slightly overexposed, low saturation, a faint yellow-green colour cast, soft JPEG compression and grain, flat on-camera flash or flat overhead light, imperfect slightly tilted framing. Real-world scale and straight walls; the emptiness and the repetition are what make it unsettling. Nothing is dramatic, it is just wrong.