Painted in 2011, the Outside Looking In series was based on a simple concept: to create art within art; to create windows or frames into other worlds.
Outside Looking In: the Inside Story
The main concept for Outside Looking In was very simple: to create frames around sceneries and give the idea that we are looking out through a window or door. The twist is that we are not looking out, we are looking in, as the frames are external frames; the outside of the windows, hence the title Outside Looking In. Inside the buildings to which the frames belong are sceneries, and the metaphor is also a simple one, although the connection is not very apparent: Inside we all carry a private world, built mostly of our own imagination and personal interpretation of everything we have experienced and believe to be real, and through our eyes others can glimpse, or to be more accurate ‘sense’ that private world we all carry with us. That is the reasoning behind the saying: “The Eyes are the Windows to the Soul”.
For Outside Looking In I wanted to do a series of pieces built around these ideas, interpreting that personal world as abstracted sceneries and the eye as the frame that surrounds and involves that private world.
Working with me on a few pieces was master sculptor and all-round artist and handy-man Filipetty, helping with carving and moulding. He was my go-to guy when my brain would be bursting with ideas for new things to create for the Outside Looking In series. We would brain-storm about the possibilities and technical difficulties, and together come up with a game-plan. Without his knowledge and belief the work in progress would have suffered and become infinitely more difficult.
Outside Looking In: The Processes
The building process for Road to Jali from the Series: Outside Looking In.
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The building process for The Watching Inca from the Series: Outside Looking In.
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The building process for The Black Hills from the Series: Outside Looking In.
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The building process for Kún-Gántl-Xunts from the Series: Outside Looking In.
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The building process for The Hills of Wu from the Series: Outside Looking In.
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The Pilgrim Mountains assembled
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The building process for The Secret Doorway from the Series: Outside Looking In.
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