These rhetorical questions were given to me by Jennifer...but i want answers :)
How would one open the door to death? to History?
any suggestions would be great.
My interpretation. A door to death explores the unknown. the inhabitant is to experience putting a hand on something unknown. feeling and prodding till he/she finds the path. An experience that eliminates the visual sense. and he or she is left to explore through touch.
Currently...one of the moments -- im exploring within the door i imagine to be...a panel that is slid away to reveal a hole in the door. The user must then insert his or her hand into the hole...and feel around to reach the "knob/handle" and figure out how to open it. an image of this occurs in those horror movies where the killer busts his (its usually a him) hand through the window in the door and reaches down to turn the doorknob. i sorta wanna simulate this sense...except express that u are putting your arm into a dark hole in the morgue door.
hopefully ill have drawings of this soon.
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You mention in another post exploring/using the ideas of a columbarium. How do you mean?
As for the door to death, I believe it is an action. I believe the door to death can be a noose (I have a glass-encased noose in my apartment that reads "Break Glass in Case of Emergency"), can be a guillotine, a bottle of pills... I believe the door to death is any one of the seven deadly sins... I believe the door to death has no sill, no jamb, no handle, no lock, no detail... for when you are pulled through that door there is nothing on this side to hang onto... nothing to stop you from going through.
Door to History? I think you've begun making a nice allusion to the unlocking of history [artifacts] being a task... a feat to be accomplished without the benefeit of foresight.
The door to death could also allude to the Lady and the Tiger.
(www.classicshorts.com/stories/tiger.html)
-parker
thanks parker...ill check out the short story.
i understand what you're saying about the noose/guillotine...
however i'd like to stay away from strong metaphors...
but i do like the ideas of the 7 deadly sins...these themes could help me out.
the question of death is infinitely deep i feel and i can see myself getting lost in morbid images... but i think what im trying to express is the sorta ridiculousness (naturally) of life... of keeping things sacred...
People die for many reasons... and obviously some reasons are more serious than others. And likewise...death may be horrific to some...and natural to others.
i guess what im saying is...i want to make light of death and i want to make light of the door knob.
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