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Floor is Lava was an artwork redeemable by burning Space Room.

Abstract

Start of the summer. School year ended about a week ago and your long time anticipated freedom – along with heat waves and refreshing swimming pools – finally appeared on your doorstep.

The day you left your school building you felt like a bird, the world belonged to you and you only. But same as with last year, even this summer you forgot that all of your friends are usually gone during the first weeks of the summer – family vacations.

You are bored. You are bored to death. It's only 2 pm and you have already done everything that could be done in this century. You rode your bike, played in your treehouse, watched a movie, bought a soda and drank it, you even cleaned your room for christ's sake, who does that?

Now you are lying upside down on the sofa in your living room, your feet resting on the backrest, head hanging down as you watch the plastic white fan slowly swirling the air in the room.

Jesus, even that thing looks bored. Not as bored as you, though.

What. Am. I. Going. To. Do.

Suddenly, in a split second you got an idea. A perfect idea, an idea exactly for this type of mood. You can't remember the last time you played that game, but that's okay, it's like riding a bike.

Ramped up by a sudden wave of inspiration and energy, you jump to your feet – but stay on the couch – and excitingly announce into the empty room: “Floor is Lava!”

This game has only one rule, you cannot touch the ground, it has become a molten hot lava. You slowly start switching legs, warming up, hopping on the couch. Your belly fills with a warm feeling of joy similar to the colour of the lava on the ground.

You start moving around with long, careful steps to get to a more strategic position. The material of the couch is a bit unstable, but that's alright, it's just as unstable as a rock floating in lava would be.

The point of this game is to move around while staying safe. You could always stay on the main couch, curled up in a ball, untouchable by the lava. But when is the fun and challenge in that?

You want to get adventurous, explore, fight the heat and danger rising from below. You want to challenge yourself. And to do that, you have to get out there.

You jump from the couch on the armchair, then take some rocks (pillows) and toss them on the lava (ground) to create an opportunity to explore the bottom of the volcano a bit more, all of that with a precise accuracy of an athlete..

Your mom definitely wouldn't like seeing you jump from one pillow to another mopping the floor with them. But how could she blame you? You have to do what needs to be done to stay alive. To explore.

This summer might not be as bad. After all, this game can be played even by one daring adventurer.