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AT HOME
“The local scene poster is a collaboration. It’s local bands and South Dakota bands from the ‘60s to now. Then the cans - they just did a special Andy Warhol edition Campbell’s Soup thing a couple years ago and we’d both bought a full set and then combined them. They’re actual cans of soup.” (Pictured top right.)
”The big creepy skull there is a Bill Fick,” said DeBoer, pointing to a print in the center of the kitchen art montage. “He’s a really well-respected printmaker who I took a class with a couple years back. He’s written textbooks that are used throughout the world about printmaking specifically and woodcuts. It’s a favorite piece of mine.” The art displayed throughout the apartment varies by medium, but the underlying theme is that each piece means something to the couple, and most pieces emit an undeniable sense of fun. For example, O’Connor is allergic to cats, so she screen printed a picture of DeBoer’s feline friend onto fabric and made a pillow. That means the real kitty can live with his parents and her sinuses can carry on undisturbed. “He’s our fourth pet. I’m not allergic to him,” she said. The chairs rescued from the USD Fine Arts Building are not the couple’s only monument to thrift. Their barstools were scored out of a dumpster. “We painted them on top,” said O’Connor. “The side table and suitcases and check master are dumpster-dive finds.” Most of the apartment’s other furnishings are Craigslist gems and bargain finds. DeBoer points at the retro, goldenrod-colored couch, “This is from ModTro. It used to be in the building below us. They were having a moving out sale, so we scooped it up.” The apartment is located in the Maxwell Building, which was originally built as a space to manufacture and