It’s a Small World

September 2, 20090 Comments Tagged: Art, Model, scale, small, suburbia, surreal

Thomas Doyle creates works that are part model, part art, part artifact and wholly surreal. Working at a scale of 1:43 or smaller, Doyle takes you to small fragments of a world of half memories and recollections.

His various works seem to be different views of suburbia, albeit one where things are not quite right. Landscapes skew and disappear, houses sink into the ground, the dirt beneath them becomes non-existent. Loyd states...

"In much the way the mind recalls events through the fog of time, the works distort reality through a warped and dreamlike lens."

The works are clearly pieces of art, but there is a high level of craftsmanship that has gone into the making. especially when it comes to the houses and buildings within the pieces, they have a fantastic feel of realism - aged and wearing as well they should. The feel like middle-America suburbia - a quiet leafy green suburb where things are not quite right. I keep getting visions of "To Kill a Mockingbird".

The question that bears asking is whether these works speak to the world and discipline of architecture. They speak of the relationship between person and property, person and structure, but perhaps from a different viewpoint than we might normally see.

Regardless of what you think, they are well worth checking out.