This new monograph, Lost in Decoration II, is realeased to accompany Then & Now, a retrospective exhibition by the Norwegian artist Ingerid Kuiters. The exhibition brings together a focused compilation of works from 1990 until today, spanning from Kuiters’ lacquer paintings on wood made with the Japanese technique urushi, to sculptures created from assembled materials and found objects. Kuiters was part of the 1960’s hippie movement, and the visual codes of the hippie counterculture constitute the basis for her personal and vibrant visual language. Radial flowers and circles, stylized figures and animals and staring eyes are recurring motifs in the intensely colored works featured in the exhibition, which explore the meditative, spiritual and surreal. The exhibition also includes a new work produced especially for Femtensesse: a decorated birdhouse hung in the backyard, endorsed by a yellow smirking face inviting the nesting birds.