Are the backrooms a collective subconscious fear of public spaces, malls, and big box companies closing and people’s inability to easily obtain goods and services?
Are the backrooms a collective subconscious fear of public spaces, malls, and big box companies closing and people’s inability to easily obtain goods and services?
One commonality between the spaces that exist in the back rooms are ones that emulate doctors offices, malls, corridors, pools, playgrounds, etc. all of these are either public or pseudo public spaces (like big box stores). Also there is a nostalgic quality to them, they all exist in a “built in the past” sort of context.