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Knock Knock

Urban Whimsy – Modern Fairy Doors

November 2020October 2022

Hotel

Hotel, 2020. 170mm x 215mm. $POA

Hotel doors.

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Posted in commercial, services, urbanBy Jon M Wilson

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We’ve all seen the whimsical fairy doors that spring up amongst the bluebells and daisies. We’ve all seen their delightful colours and enchanting decorations peeking out from the leafy idyll of forest glades and woodland nooks. They are a glimpse into the world of the fairy – dancing in the dewdrops, and flitting through the dappled light of nature’s canopy.

What has remained hidden behind the scenes, just out of sight, is the world that supports these artisans and artists.  Behind every fairy who spends her – or his – day weaving the silken cobwebs into dreamcatchers and chai cosies, is someone who carved their table and chair, someone who made the hinges and nails that make their beautiful fairy door what it is.

There’s the fairy artiste who gathers the dew, to mix with the delicate pollen of the tulips and daffodils to make their organic, all natural pigments and tinctures to paint their auras, and express their feelings in bold swirls of colour on the pebbles of the river bank. But who makes their clay pots? Not the whimsical Toby Jugs and grinning troll mugs, but the everyday working pots that hold fragments of charcoal, a couple of grams of deep red earth, or some distilled organic goop in shades of rich green. Who brews their coffee? Who services their other needs – the light, the dark and the in between?

Knock Knock by Quirkish Designs captures and celebrates the under world of the fairy world, capturing the working world of the fairy folk. Functional, rugged, prosaic doors suitable for a blacksmith or a coffee shop, a tinker or an adult emporium.

Not everyone in the fairy world gets to make the tree change and live amongst the greenery and rural idyll of the forest. Some have to make do with the urban environment, and carve out a niche as best they can. Urban sprawl inevitably consumes the suburbs, which consume their rural fringes and the occupants adapt. Neighbours become physically closer and more emotionally separated as infill development becomes the norm. Low density acreage is divided and subdivided until higher density living is more prevalent.

They say that good fences make good neighbours – in the city, a good door and good lock help to do the same. Solid, reliable doors to keep the outside out, and the inside, in when the world is not everything we would wish it to be, and life in the community is not as communal as it could be.

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