
“Homebody”
Walking into the lower-level galleries of the Cranbrook Art Museum to see the group exhibition “Homebody,” I first encountered Martha Mysko’s What To Do With Windows, 2021. This large framed mixed-media work features a photographic reproduction of a living room, with three cream-colored accordion lampshades jutting out from the picture’s surface. Holes are cut into the image, and out of them rise various textiles based on the appointments in Mysko’s piece, like a patterned fabric that resembles a throw depicted on a sofa. One of the slits partially obscures a bouquet of white daisies resting on