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While some artists might experience spontaneous moments of creative energy, I'd speculate that most are in the obsessive camp, relentlessly trying to get things right (as if there's some universal "right") and beating themselves up when they don't reach that impossible goal.
That common artistic obsession adds a layer to Sarah Hobbs' art-on display at the Indianapolis Museum of Contemporary Art's City Way Gallery through June 24.
Hobbs' work doesn't just indicate perfectionism; it's about perfectionism and its cousins, obsessiveness and overcompensation.
In a series of large photographs of carefully composed domestic scenes, someone clearly has issues. We don't see any human figures in any of them, but Hobbs lets us imagine the anonymity-desiring person who crafted an outfit using the same pattern as the wallpaper. Or...