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If Ricky’s Room is the safehouse of depression, Ricky’s Resort is the hallucination of recovery.

A few artists have merged the two into a single installation: Ricky’s Room Resort —a hotel room that is also a prison cell. The bed is made of cardboard. The “ocean view” is a 14-inch CRT playing a VHS of a wave. The resort keycard opens a lock on the inside of the door. rickysroom rickys resort

Soon, “Ricky’s Room” became shorthand for a very specific type of digital-age depression—not the dramatic kind, but the quiet, comfortable rot of having no expectations. The lore grew: Ricky never leaves. Ricky works a remote data entry job from 1999. Ricky hasn’t seen the sun in 14 years, but he has a good CRT filter on his second monitor. He orders the same microwaved macaroni every Tuesday. If Ricky’s Room is the safehouse of depression,