NEGOTIATING DOORWAYS
This image was part of a series of architectural works which was influenced by interior places and spaces in Rome, Sicily, and Barcelona. Architectural space provided a metaphor for me to explore and facilitate the imagery of journeying into the existential questions of being. The stairways, tunnels, passages and large spaces, the gates open or closed, explore meaning and the possible sense of entrapment or freedoms. The ideas set forth the premise that inhabiting or being inside architectural spaces is a physical, psychological and spritual state. They are all elements within our emotional and existential landscapes.
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Uncertain Point of View, 2007
Gouache, inks, conte, acrylic, collage, on paper.
83x104cm, framed
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Architecture as a metaphor provided an opportunity to work with what I describe as psychological space. The forms allow me to use stairways, tunnels, passages gates and doorways that are open or closed to explore possible meanings. It facilitates the imagery of journeying, and here just as the old buildings have been changed over time the balcony could now be unsafe.