This project started as collaborative dialogue with Richard Christiansen from Chandelier Creative. The initial concept was loosely based on “the gates of hell”, a sculptural work of Rodin, mixed with Richards key words of “dildos and doll parts“.  We wanted the doors to reflect Chandelier Creatives’ unconventional style as taste makers by creating an electronic baroque, fusing franchise capitalism with moviefantasies and exploring the relations between media and topological surface.
The front of the doors was created through a collision of media and technique. We gleaned our hard drives, harvesting bits and pieces of past projects sculpting the surface through digital collage. This allowed for an unusual balancing act where recycling  digital ready-mades lead to a reclaimed authorship and to the composing of new narratives developed out of over-saturated media.  The back of the doors we created by unfolding, [a sort of reverse digital origami] a 3-dimensional digital model of the head of  Star Wars hero Yoda, into a 2-dimensional pattern. We used the flat pattern to generate a decorative skin and thus discovered a  way of developing pattern and texture as the byproduct. The trim around the edges was based on blending the explicit sexuality  found in ancient Kama Sutra carvings filtered through the stylings’ of Victorian crown moldings.