Once upon a time, a rash of motley blotches would have been considered bad news. Now it just means you’re scrolling through the latest interiors trends on Pinterest or Instagram, bearing witness to the triumph of terrazzo.
The human mind is programmed to find solace in regular patterns and symmetry. In the Middle Ages, spotted clothing was taboo because the technology to space spots evenly on fabric didn’t exist, and random spots just reminded people of all that was dangerous and disgusting: plague, pestilence, bleeding. Thanks to the miracle of modern medicine we now have a higher tolerance for polka dots, but the fact remains that in a world of chaos, we crave order at a very deep level. So why (oh why) is everything now covered in the jumbled speckles and splatters of terrazzo?
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