The Discovery
Ifreann's Gate
The Record
Every discovery is released with a signed certificate of authenticity recording its materials, dimensions and provenance.
Ifreann, hell in the irish language. The deeply twisted contours giving the impression that the discovery has endured as opposed to having been created.
Its wood twists inward on itself. Deep contours. Torn surfaces. A form shaped by weather, pressure and time until it begins to resemble some hellish architecture.
A doorway. A gate. An opening to somewhere no one should go. The natural bends and erosion already suggested posts, walls and the fractured outline of a gate.
Inspiration & Notes
This discovery was made in an abandoned School House up in North Donegal that held some signifcance for my ancestors. Its pieces, when put together had a natural form from weathering that speaks of a doorway or gate, perhaps an entrance or maybe an escape. Ifreann’s Door offers a passage into something unearthly. The first visual reference was the entrance to Mordor in The Lord of the Rings: a monumental threshold into a hostile landscape.
Other influences followed. Sand dunes. Wind-cut surfaces. The sands of time. Paths dividing and disappearing.
The Lore
- Dark Art
- Dark Fantasy
- Macabre
- Twisted
- Totemic
- Wounded
- Weathered
- Hell
- Damnation
- Corruption
The Record in images
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