click to enlarge Artist Paula Lalala in front of the Paula Lalala MVSEVM. In 1997, New York-based artist Paula Lalala took a trip back to her childhood home in Texas. She had left over 15 years before, and, after her parents' divorce, her siblings and mother had moved on as well—at that point, it was only her father living alone in the home they had all once shared. While it was a simple trip from New York to Texas, it was also, in effect, a trip back in time. "Very little had changed aesthetically or materially in the house," Lalala remembers. "My father was a very meticulous man—he was a dentist—and he kept all of the items in the exact same places they had been when I lived there as a girl. The glasses in the kitchen cabinet were arranged the same way they had always been; the books on the bookshelves were in the same order; the furniture was in the same locations. He did that for decades. It struck me that he was living in a museum."