UNTITLED [knob] [idée fixe]

Installation at a 90 degree angle to the wall of the gallery or in empty space, passage. Hanged on filament. 

 

·         Alice: I simply must get through!

Doorknob: Sorry, you're much too big. Simply impassible.

Alice: You mean impossible?

Doorknob: No, impassible. Nothing's impossible.

· A rounded handle that one pulls or twists:

· Doorknob, a round handle one turns to open any door

· Control knob, controls a device

· Brodie knob on the steering wheel

· A prominent rounded hill or mountain, particularly in the Appalachians and the Ozarks.

· A slang term for the penis, also used as a derogatory epithet similar to "idiot".

 

 

2010 – in progress

Drawings 

# 1 pencil drawing on paper  -  drawing of a door knob on paper  x 2

207cm x 81 cm [81” x 32”] standard American door format

 

#2 knitting of a knob

Cotton thread

207cm x 81 cm [81” x 32”] standard American door format

 

# 3 photomagnets

dimensions variable

 

 

 

·         Doorknob: D'ooooh!

Alice: Oh! I beg your pardon...

Doorknob: Quite all right, but you did give me quite a turn.

Alice: You see, I was chasing this...

Doorknob: Rather good, what? Doorknob? Turn? Since one good turn deserves another, what can I do for you?