02.2022
ThreshÂold
With Threshold, I invite the viewer to look at the realities of his or her life from a meta-level. The pictorial elements are meant to encourage reflection on one's own paths and to recognise that nothing is unchanging.
With Threshold, I invite the viewer to look at the realities of his or her life from a meta-level. The pictorial elements are meant to encourage reflection on one's own paths and to recognise that nothing is unchanging.
Life's paths lead through areas of light and shadow, and at times they are also in a transition between light and dark.
Even if we freeze temporarily, our surroundings change, because life is dynamic. Only when we are and remain mobile do we reach a point where we can let our gaze wander into an infinite distance. The driving force for this is hope.
Threshold allows the viewer to define this vista individually, as the minimal concept applied allows for any reality of life.
I wish you an exciting voyage of discovery in which you can dare to look beyond your present world of perception into the distance.
The surreal artwork Threshold is subject to a minimalist concept. Here, the pictorial elements are reduced to the essentials. In the work, the viewer adopts a frog's-eye view and looks at the scenery from the front.
The work shows a white outside staircase, which is bordered on the left and right by two white walls.
The wall to the left extends upwards beyond the end of the stairs. Due to the frog's perspective, the viewer can only guess at the continuation of the wall.
Furthermore, this wall has a round window through which light falls from the left. The window is arranged in such a way that one could look through it when going up the stairs. However, this is not possible for the viewer, as he is in perspective on the lower landing. The last landing is clearly visible, but not the adjacent floor.
The wall to the right ends just above the end of the stairs and runs both parallel to the stairs and to the right. Windows or doors are not visible in this wall.
A shadow is integrated in the work, which falls from left to right. Thus, the entire left wall and the adjacent vertical half of the staircase are in shadow. This shimmers in a blue tone. The taper of the shadow runs from the upper stair landing downwards.
A blue to blue-violet clear horizon in the background completes the work. The sky colours are reflected in the shadow on the matt texture of the left wall as well as in the shaded part of the staircase.
Colour-wise, the artwork consists of the base colour Lavender, also called Moon Maker, with 98% brightness. This colour is used for the staircase and the walls and consists of almost equal proportions of blue, green and red.
The gradient of the horizon starts with a saturated blue "Blue Ribbon", a colour with 70% blue and 22% green. It ends with the colour "Heliotrope", also known as "Lavender", which is composed of 32% red and 45% blue with a more or less constant green.
The blue-violet shade is partially desaturated. In the dark areas it takes on the colour "Lucky Point, Indigo". Indigo has a blue content of 61% and a red content of 15% with a brightness of only 43%. In the lightest parts of the shadow we find a portage blue, a light cobalt blue. This shade of blue has a blue content of 43%, a red content of 26% and an increased green content of 31%. The brightness of this light blue tone is 90%.
Threshold is a digital painting from the series "Breath" and was created by the artist Friedrich Siever in 2022.
