Door no. 1

Habitat for Humanity has a Restore location in Etobicoke and they have a project to redesign old doors. They have involved artists and students to give new life to them. 25 doors will be selected and taken on a tour around Canada and then will be auctioned off.

Three of us from Humber (Golnar, Raya, Masooma) have been volunteering for this project and for our first door we have a Piet Mondrian inspired design that we have been working on. This is his work that we used for our inspiration:

(http://www.ibiblio.org/wm/paint/auth/mondrian/ryb.jpg)

We picked a simple plain door for our design and an acrylic sheet we found in the store and used whatever paints they had and a permanent marker for the black lines (yes, a marker). The idea was to paint the design on the acrylic sheet and turn it around and glue it/attach it on the door so the design is viewed through the acrylic giving it a bit of a dimension. Also combining inspiration from Oki Sato's lecture at the IDS, we decided to keep the design a bit off the centre and the visual weight also off balance. Here's a bit of our process below:

Here's hoping it turns out to be as we are planning it!