"Best of All Possible Worlds"
This is a sculpture I encountered at the Decordova Museum and Sculpture park. According to their website, Saul Melman's "Best of All Possible Worlds" consists of eight vacuum-molded casts of doors, arranged in the exact configuration of the artist’s Brooklyn apartment. The vacuum-cast process creates translucent replicas of the original doors. Traces of paint and small pieces of wood cling to the surface of some of the doors, suggesting their past lives and situating them between the material and immaterial, past and present.
"Best of All Possible Worlds"
This is a sculpture I encountered at the Decordova Museum and Sculpture park. According to their website, Saul Melman's "Best of All Possible Worlds" consists of eight vacuum-molded casts of doors, arranged in the exact configuration of the artist’s Brooklyn apartment. The vacuum-cast process creates translucent replicas of the original doors. Traces of paint and small pieces of wood cling to the surface of some of the doors, suggesting their past lives and situating them between the material and immaterial, past and present.