What was on the ceiling.

My first home in Austin can best be described as a roach-infested hovel with benefits – It was directly across the street from the UT campus.

It cost me $40 mo. and consisted of a single living area with a bare bulb outlet in the middle of the 7 ft. high ceiling, a full bath, and a kitchen that seemed to me a re-purposed closet.  One day, I got so bored that I decided to decorate the ceiling and using green twine and pushpins created an 8 ft. by 8 ft. version of this pattern centered on the electric outlet which held the bare bulb in the middle of the room.

If you stare at it for a while, it can seem to change from concave to convex and vice versa.

With such a low ceiling, first-time and even some second-time visitors would automatically duck as they came in the door…

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