Forced Perspective (And I Kno It’s Rigged, But It’s tha Only Game in Town), by artist Christina Quarles is large-format acrylic painting, installed across five large panels of canvas. This artwork is around 16 feet tall and 21 feet across, and fully takes up the entire height of the gallery wall. It is installed in a corner, with around three feet of the painting wrapping around the ninety-degree bend in the gallery walls. Some of the canvas panels are so long that they unroll downward, touching the floor. Forced Perspective has an overall pattern of a floral wallpaper, interrupted by rectangular windows. Within these rectangular shapes, are a total of six nude figures, a scene of blue sky, or unpainted canvas. In the upper right, there is one physical cut-out, as one of the canvas panels is placed 4 feet lower than the adjoining parts of the painting, creating a blank space exposing the gallery wall behind it. The wallpaper pattern that dominates the background of the artwork is metallic silver, with a shiny luster under white light. Arranged in vertical columns a little over a foot apart, there are pink flowers. The flowers are around five inches in diameter and have five equally sized petals, resembling cherry blossoms. They are painted in a deep and intense pink at their center and are unpainted at the ends, creating a color gradient from the center of the flower outward. The flowers are placed in staggered rows, so that they align horizontally with every other column, creating a repeating diagonal pattern of pink flowers on a silver background. In the upper left corner, there is a painted rectangle off blue sky. Immediately to the right of this “window” is an unpainted rectangle of canvas. The artist uses a technique called trompe l’oiel to make it seem like the canvass is peeled back to reveal a window looking outward. In the lower left of center of the installation, are two of the nude figures. One with short blond hair is seen on all fours, facing left. The second figure is barely seen, mostly submerged in a black rectangle beneath the blond woman on all fours. Only their orange-colored head and their nipples are seen peeking up through the black rectangle. The third figure is seen in profile behind the first figure, standing on one foot as if she were leaning against a wall. She a long black braid that hangs over her head and is hunched over with a bent back. These figures, as well as all the other on the canvas, are painted with long, stretched limbs and in neon colors. In the lower right and upper right of the large painting are two more windows, with the remaining three figures seen either standing, squatting, or kneeling.  They yellow and pink used on the distorted arms and contorted faces create a tension alongside the metallic silver background.