Portal : The Closed Door

Portal: The Closed Door, 2021
Cast Recycled Glass, Brass, Steel, Silicone, Plaster
110 x 80 x 12 cm (without plaster base)

Winner of the Vicki Torr Prize 2021

Modelled after the tower shield (Shuang Hu Dun) in Qin Shi Huang Di’s tomb used during the Warring States, this piece represents the door to the psyche, the facade we all put up that hides our rich inner world. Foreboding but enchanting, it shuts us out yet pulls us in - a heavy portal to another world that others can only glimpse through the cracks that form under pressure.