"Surrender to the pleasure of the decorative. Revel in the excessive, embrace it, be dazzled. A stall stacked with lurid artificial flowers,rhythmic serpentine graffiti, baroque mermen carved over the old town hall door, all are equally a joy to the eye. Indulge yourself.
"But there is more than just the surface. Layers of decoration contain levels of meaning, messages and codes. Symbols of power, conspicuous consumption, signals of elitist knowledge, patterns of control, signs of social belonging.
"Is it all just Too Much? Visual overload, information overload, too much to digest – too much work, not enough time. Are our eyes bigger than our stomachs?"
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