I haven’t tried to paint a really good illusion since I stopped painting professionally. Lately, however, I’ve been getting the urge to do one and, since it’d be for myself, the sky’s the limit in terms of subject matter. Originally, I was focusing on a wall in a sad looking half-bath, but then this morning I turned around and suddenly realized that I had three locations simply begging for some sort of illusionistic treatment. In the main room of my apartment, there are three closets with folding doors which lay flat and are really, really boring. All are eight feet high (240) cm. and reach the ceiling. The widths are 22 inches (56 cm.), 42 inches (107 cm.) and 36 inches (91 cm.).
So what should I paint?
The context is a 1960 white brick residential tower in midtown Manhattan. Yes, it’s boring, but that also means that there aren’t very distinctive architectural features which need to be incorporated. I want to do something a little challenging and all three doors should relate to one another. By the way, you don’t see all three at the same time.
