While living and working in multiple cities over the past twenty-eight years, there are plenty of opportunities for me to explore, and wow, have I explored. Over time, your pattern recognition techniques are honed, and you start to see the unique and unusual among the boring and the common. It is easy for me to filter out the signal from all the noise, and I am drawn to whatever the strongest signals are to discover something out of place. Something uncommon and anti-boring. Sure, others may them by, and I am grateful, because these little discoveries can feel like they were placed there just for me.
Today the focus all lies on doors. Of course, they are simply doors, designed to shelter and protect. But occasionally, they are designed to keep things in or to access. Doors are powerful in literature with dual or multiple euphemisms.
We keep moving forward, opening up new doors and doing new things, because we're curious… and curiosity keeps leading us down new paths. — Walt Disney
There are things known and things unknown, and in between are The Doors. — Jim Morrison
“When one door closes, another opens, but we often look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one that has been opened for us.” — Paulo Coelho from The Alchemist
So every time I saunter past an object of uniqueness, I stop to observe. I started my “Doors of Tulsa” project back in 2017 and haven’t kept up with it until traveling recently observed/captured doors from other areas. Next time I see a unique door I will not be so hasty and capture it for my collection.
* Chris
While editing this newsletter, I was listening to… The Doors, of course.
