About Andy Acres's rumboxes and why they are so attractive.
Why are we attracted to dolls' houses and roomboxes? They are a small reflection of the big world, a reduced copy of reality that can be seen from the outside. All those wonderful mini-books in the little bookcase, fireplaces, beds. And the more details and secrets in the toy room, the more interesting world opens to our imagination.
How wonderful it would be to recreate a room from our childhood, with a dream diary under the pillow and favorite books and toys. Any piece of the past or future can be turned into a small world.
The most important thing in creating a roombox or doll house is to embody a certain atmosphere, with the help of furniture, many small details, color and light.
Andy Acres, an English painter and modeller, added even the fog to the atmospherics of the roombox.
His mysterious and mystical art objects, boxes in which you fall through are mysterious worlds.
They resemble paintings in 3D, and they really look like paintings, most often framed, and the side is equipped with a vintage switch to turn on and off the backlight.
Before making another roombox, Andy makes a sketch on paper with a careful drawing of the details and only then proceeds to the roombox itself. It certainly reduces the time to work on it, because when you have a plan, everything goes much easier.
Most of all in his works carries away multidimensionality, twilight fog outside the window, silhouettes of trees and creatures from another world.
They write that these are terrible pictures, that this is a setting from horror films. But in my opinion, it creates a mystical atmosphere, akin to dreams or fairy tales. There are no monsters or bloodstains here. But the feeling that the garden outside the window, filled with fog and moonlight is alive, that someone is there - that's the atmosphere. When what you don't see, you feel!
Places that inspire Andy are abandoned farms, old attics, misty forests, fields, rooms in abandoned houses, or for example the room where the coffin stands. How's that?
In all the interiors and landscapes he created, vintage style, abandonment, a sense of eternity and at the same time the corruption of everything prevails. And against the background of the decay of things and destroyed houses, there is a magical sublunar world, it is always outside the window – alive, shimmering, alluring.
This is what attracts in the roomboxes by the English artist, the existence of a frightening and at the same time alluring other world, another reality, which is hidden behind the fog. Two worlds in one roombox :)
Prices for his work range from $1,225 to $2,200 depending on the difficulty. Andy claims that he has been doing his work for a very long time, without denying his desire for perfection.
See how the details are worked out:
Scarecrow in the cornfield.
Are you inspired by these landscapes?
I immediately lit up to make a chest of drawers with lights!
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Have a magical day!