Risa Hricovsky is a post-discipline/installation artist. Her work pushes the boundaries between painting and sculpture, and between art, design and craft. The artworks she creates punctuate space through pattern, color and her use of the multiple. Working though dichotomies such as order & chaos, attraction & repulsion and similarity & difference, she makes visual poems about perception. Shag rugs are synonymous with the 1960s and its counterculture. The plush, free flowing rugs provoke involuntary memories of peace, love and the progressive change of the era. However, many of the same struggles toward social equity exist today as they did 60 years ago. This piece is as hard as it looks soft. The porcelain rug is a metaphor for the ideals of the 60s being frozen in sentiment and unable to engender substantial progress. Yet they still represent the contemporary idealism of radical transformation and the hope for a greater future.