metablog

DIGITAL AND ANALOG SEPARATORS
A door is like an analog window – it has degrees of openness – While a wall is a binary separator (with us or against us), a door is an analog separator and has degrees of openness (kind of with us, but mostly against us). Doors implicate trespassers and introduce the idea of access in a different way than a wall. A door is inviting – a performance of availability.

INTERFACE

Green Doors
Originally uploaded by DewCon.

Which way do I go? The closed window implies closed doors.
The interface for the door (lock, key, handle) dictates the permeability of said door. Consider the Friendster profile that can be read by everyone (open handle) or a profile that is not publicly open (in need of the “friendster” key). If someone decides NOT to have their profile public, they are performing their “right to privacy” – or they might be performing exclusivity. This “private” profile has put a wall that has the door of possible friendship. If you are cool, friendly, attractive, or just simply not crazy psycho weird, then you have access, the correct key.

LIMINAL STATES

In Between
Originally uploaded by Big Fat Rat.

A door also is the point of liminality – the direct point of in-between. A liminal state is a state of neither here nor there. It is the site of transformation. When you choose to move through the door, you are not where you were, but where you are. You transform your being from out to in or vice versa.

Rarely do people stand in doorways (or sites of transformation) – they move through them. People are rarely secure enough to remain in a continual liminal state – who can conceivably live moving through doors of doors of doors in hallways of doors? This is like a hall of mirrors. Or possibly an invitation to live in continual transformation.

VIDEO:
Here is a VIDEO I made regarding LIMINAL STATES – the state of Waiting.

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DOORS by ADAM GREENFIELD