Further Inspiration

As I’m trying to create the illusion of a doorway through framing and reflection I looked for more works that I felt had similar aspects.
The first of which was Gavin Turks, Ajar. A free-standing doorway that can be either opening or closing depending on the viewers orientation to the piece. It was created as “A playful homage to William Blake’s famous doors of perception, visitors are invited to walk through Turk’s door into the enchanting realms of the imagination and beyond.”(http://gavinturk.com/artworks/image/10380/) The out of place location of this door appealed to me and the way it is exhibited in nature without any other structural surroundings. I’m interested in the shadow the door creates and how this would shift through the course of a day.

Doorways act as a sort of portal between spaces and in sci-fi films featuring parallel worlds, portals are pretty common in some way, shape or form. This piece, pOrtal: A Bridge to the United Planet was partly funded by the municipalities of Lithuania and Poland as a way to connect people from the cities of Vilnius and Lublin despite being over 550km apart. The “virtual bridge” allows passersby to visually and verbally communicate and are situated in areas that experience a pretty consistent flow of pedestrian traffic. Created during the pandemic these portals are especially relevant in keeping a connection even when we are unable to travel and physically share spaces. Initially this idea was presented in a competition to promote tourism in The Lithuanian capital and there are future plans to create portals connecting Vilnius to London and Reykjavik. I think these portals are such a unique way to view a city in real time and the scale and shape of them in relation to their surroundings gives a futuristic, sci-fi vibe.

Below are a few of Angus Muir’s Installations, Field Alight and Field Apart. Both of these use mirror and reflection to distort their surroundings and offer new perspectives. I find myself drawn to the lighting aspect of Field Alight and the combination of this with the mirror creates something that draws you in and then has an almost maze like effect. Field Apart disrupts the scenic landscape in which it’s set and lays it out like a collage through the angled panels. Both these pieces have an element of simplicity that I’d like to capture in my own installation, however the materials offset this and create variation within the repeated structures.

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