Portal by Pat Musick, Enameling on Copper, Wood, Mixed Media
Artist Statement
The nature of portals–gates, doors, transitional spaces—is to open into the unknown, or to exit from what has been. Synergies arise in “Portal” out of rough wood together with shiny glass (enameling), precise calligraphy with loose powdered glass sifted and fired in many layers. “Entrance” or “Exit” on this portal depends on the angle of light: it’s all how you look at it. Or is it all one? In the words of William Blake, inscribed just below the “Entrance/Exit” panel, “if the doors of perception were cleansed, everything would appear…as it is, Infinite.”
