Thomas Doyle
Posted by Alex
This is the work of Thomas Doyle. Truly unique and unusual in the most wonderful way! I recognized the style from a NYT Magazine cover a few years back that I always kept around just because I loved the image. Definitely a little weird, but definitely a lot awesome.
On a side note, I love cityscapes or scenes contained in glass — I think a sentiment carried over from my days spent playing SimCity 2000 where the glass-enclosed Archipelago was the ultimate goal. Despite the obvious spatial downsides of being confined to a limited space, I’ve always wanted to reside in such a dwelling.
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gerwin says:
April 5, 2011 at 3:59 amWow, amazing!
El Centro Storage Units says:
April 5, 2011 at 9:33 amI think I won’t be able to survive in such an environment disconnected to everything. As the saying goes, NO MAN IS AN ISLAND. Although sometimes, I have the craving to just run away from it all. It will only be momentary.
Michael says:
April 5, 2011 at 10:44 amWow. Just wow.
Antoine says:
April 5, 2011 at 12:07 pmI’m pretty sure you’ll like this too :)
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Joaquim Marquès Nielsen says:
April 5, 2011 at 1:00 pmSeeing these images makes me want to build one of these myself! I wonder were one can acquire a glass dome with a wooden floor like the ones here… I’m just a sucker for anything absurd, so this just hits the spot for me! Thanks a lot for sharing Alex!
Andrew says:
April 5, 2011 at 2:11 pmThey sort of remind me of the photography Gregory Crewdson does. There’s a lot of tension between the characters, almost to where you’d guess what would happen next. Really interesting stuff, thanks for sharing!
Anonymous says:
April 5, 2011 at 3:52 pmI can’t describe how great I think these are!!!!
Douglas says:
April 5, 2011 at 8:07 pmI just love these so much. I emailed him, but I doubt anything is for sale. I would love to have one of these that I like to just look at everyday.
Douglas says:
April 5, 2011 at 8:08 pmI just love these so much. I emailed him, but I doubt anything is for sale. I would love to have one of these that I like to just look at everyday.
Brien says:
April 6, 2011 at 10:45 amAmazing work.
Re: SimCity – Not Archipelago, Arcology http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arcology
Alex says:
April 6, 2011 at 11:08 am@Douglas – Some are for sale at various galleries. Will have to find the link, but I also spoke with him and some pieces are up.
@ Brien – Thank you!! Ahh that was killing me. I knew I had the name wrong but couldn’t find it in the searches haha
d|| says:
April 6, 2011 at 11:51 amI’m sucker for dioramas.
jotta.com says:
August 16, 2011 at 4:37 amjotta interviewed Thomas and found out the reasons that prompted him to begin creating these curiously miniature worlds, evoking the memories of childhood but with a dark twist:
http://www.jotta.com/jotta/published/home/article/v2-published/1753/thomas-doyle-mining-the-debris-of-memory