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Door
dɔr, doʊr - Show Spelled Pronunciation[dawr, dohr]
noun

1. a movable, usually solid, barrier for opening and closing an entranceway, cupboard, cabinet, or the like, commonly turning on hinges or sliding in grooves.
2. a doorway: to go through the door.
3. the building, house, etc., to which a door belongs: My friend lives two doors down the street.
4. any means of approach, admittance, or access: the doors to learning.
5. any gateway marking an entrance or exit from one place or state to another: at heaven's door.
—Idioms
6. lay at someone's door, to hold someone accountable for; blame; impute.
7. leave the door open, to allow the possibility of accommodation or change; be open to reconsideration: The boss rejected our idea but left the door open for discussing it again next year.
8. lie at someone's door, to be the responsibility of; be imputable to: One's mistakes often lie at one's own door.
9. show someone the door, to request or order someone to leave; dismiss: She resented his remark and showed him the door.
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[Origin: bef. 900; ME dore, OE duru door, dor gate; akin to G Tür, ON dyrr, Gk thýra, L foris, OIr dorus, OCS dvĭrĭ ]

passage
ˈpæs ɪdʒ - Show Spelled Pronunciation[pas-ij] Pronunciation Key
noun, verb, -saged, -sag•ing.
noun

1. a portion or section of a written work; a paragraph, verse, etc.: a passage of Scripture.
2. a phrase or other division of a musical work.
3. Fine Arts. an area, section, or detail of a work, esp. with respect to its qualities of execution: passages of sensitive brushwork.
4. an act or instance of passing from one place, condition, etc., to another; transit.
5. the permission, right, or freedom to pass: to refuse passage through a territory.
6. the route or course by which a person or thing passes or travels.
7. a hall or corridor; passageway.
8. an opening or entrance into, through, or out of something: the nasal passages.
9. a voyage by water from one point to another: a rough passage across the English Channel.
10. the privilege of conveyance as a passenger: to book passage on an ocean liner.
11. the price charged for accommodation on a ship; fare.
12. a lapse or passing, as of time.
13. a progress or course, as of events.
14. the enactment into law of a legislative measure.
15. an interchange of communications, confidences, etc., between persons.
16. an exchange of blows; altercation or dispute: a passage at arms.
17. the act of causing something to pass; transference; transmission.
18. an evacuation of the bowels.
19. an occurrence, incident, or event.
–verb (used without object)
20. to make a passage; cross; pass; voyage.
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[Origin: 1250–1300; ME <>

threshold
noun

1. the starting point for a new state or experience; "on the threshold of manhood"
2. the smallest detectable sensation
3. the entrance (the space in a wall) through which you enter or leave a room or building; the space that a door can close; "he stuck his head in the doorway" [syn: doorway]

4. the sill of a door; a horizontal piece of wood or stone that forms the bottom of a doorway and offers support when passing through a doorway [syn: doorsill]

5. a region marking a boundary [syn: brink]





This idea is a kind of basis for my work summed up in one small sentence:

the starting point for a new state or experience

Cellar Door

"Most English-speaking people...will admit that cellar door is 'beautiful', especially if dissociated from its sense (and from its spelling). More beautiful than, say, sky, and far more beautiful than beautiful. Well then, in Welsh for me cellar doors are extraordinarily frequent, and moving to the higher dimension, the words in which there is pleasure in the contemplation of the association of form and sense are abundant."  J.R.R. Tolkien

Cellar Door is an idea which was passed onto me through the film Donnie Darko. The idea for me gets particularly fascinating if you start to think about what may be behind that door, be it a physical or mental door. It could be a blockage or a pathway, although both are intrinsically linked, both are polar opposites.

Is the beauty in the passage through a door, the inability to break through the door or the moment when someone/something finally does pass to the other side of the door? As far as I can see there is an argument for beauty in all three. 

I'd like to explore this relationship and juxtapostion, to see if I can pinpoint the beauty in a door. Cellar Door maybe the way into this work but I don't think its essential to stick with the cellar door as the only type of door which contains, or 'is' beauty. 

...although I may find that Cellar Door is beauty.

6 degrees of internalisation

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6 more degrees of separation ideas...

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