Jul
17
Small Worlds – Part 3 – Thomas Doyle Snowglobes
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Clearing by Thomas Doyle
Thomas Doyle creates snowglobes with fantastically dark and subversive themes. Take for example “Clearing” from his “Reclamations” series. In this wonderfully recursive and self-referential work, a person (ironically trapped in a snowglobe) encounters another person trapped within a smaller snowglobe and crying out for help. It is this interplay of the real and surreal that makes Doyle’s work so compelling. The miniature person in the outer snowglobe is clearly amazed and confounded at having discovered a person trapped in a snowglobe, though he himself is blissfully unaware of his own predicament.