Portal Peepholes

People like peeping it would seem........with just four of the tiniest peepholes being the only way to see inside the Wardrobe....having to put your eye right up to a peephole to be able to view the room inside...only just being able to catch a snatched glimpse of ducks flying across Granny's wallpaper...reflected into infinity...an old telephone that hasn't rung for years...an empty bone china teacup....an old photograph...books.....and wait....a window looking out.....illusions to confuse the conditioned mind.....touchstones to remind that all is not as it would seem....reminders of the peace of inner space....the amount of people who said they wanted to climb in, move in, break in....and the realization as an artist that I have truly created a magic wardrobe....watch that space get bigger and bigger and the wardrobe get smaller and smaller!

The Wardrobe aka Inner Room @ Artat Rhosygilwen 2011

Portal Dabblings

For weeks and weeks I have had my head in a wardrobe....why? I have been asking myself the same question frequently.....I will try and answer now - tho I may ramble to reach a conclusion!
Portals....wardrobes...inner spaces.....Narnia....Tardis...private spaces...entrances to other worlds...other dimensions...other ways of being.....time machines - these all fascinate me not just as a curious soul searching for answers...but as an artist who enjoys making her viewer question space and the 'normal'.
The Wardrobe in question is the first of my fleet to be.....my blueprint and its debut was at Artat Rhosygilwen (http://artat.org.uk/index.php )...after weeks of intense head work The Wardrobe was installed last Sunday and after several days of extreme weather which had me a lil anxious to say the least... it survived intact!

The feedback from people has been beyond any expectation and I am excited by the feeling I have inside of where me and my magic wardrobe will go....it truly is a time machine....at times it has been a painful process and  I must admit to nearly giving up - thinking I was trying to achieve the impossible,now I can look back at myself and laugh out loud knowing anything is possible if you put your mind to it.....I have succeeded in creating another world in a wardrobe and I am a proud Ms Mitten.