Doyle is a featured artist on Booooooom!, one of our favorite sites dedicated to fostering dialogue and activity about art, design, and music. Doyle's personal website features the artwork from his three main series, Distillation, Reclamations and Bearings. Each series includes amazing constructions of strange and dark situations done in 1:43 scale or smaller. The strange and intense dioramas that Doyle creates are often displayed in bell jars or enclosed terrarium settings. "By sealing the works in this fashion, I hope to distill the debris of human experience down to single, fragile moments." We love the work, and have spent quite a while exploring Doyle's world of unexpected scenes caught under glass.
Images:
• 1 "Acceptable losses," 2008. Mixed media, 16 x 13.5 inches diameter.
• 2 "Courier," 2007. Mixed media, 12.5 x 14 inches diameter. (detail)
• 3 "Courier," 2007. Mixed media, 12.5 x 14 inches diameter.
• 4 "The reprisal," 2006. Mixed media, 10 x 12 inches diameter. (detail)
• 5 "The reprisal," 2006. Mixed media, 10 x 12 inches diameter.
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Beautiful work, but such sinister scenes! I wouldn't want to own any of these, but do appreciate Mr. Doyle's artistry.
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Adore these. I think I've got Tim Burton to thank, at least in part, for my love of morbidity in art.
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Wow...these are amazing and incredibly haunting, but still manage to be beautiful.
view thewifeofanartist's profile
Personally I am not drawn to violence and fear, but these terrariums are really beautifully constructed.
view nikki moore - photography and vintage treasures's profile
Wow, these are awful scenes, but beautifully rendered! They sort of remind me of David Levinthal's photographs, like his Modern Romance series:
http://www.davidlevinthal.com/works.html
Levinthal's work exists as photography, of course, while these are three-dimensional objects that can be examined from a variety of angles.
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I like the one's that aren't murder scenes. They're neat, like surreal fairy tales.
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Love it.
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I LOVE these! So surreal!
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I think they are fantastic. Although I agree the one with the murder scene is creepy. I have made my own versions of this art form. I use discarded beach debris to create fairytell venues that remind me of my childhood at the beach. Not to toot my own horn but I like mine better!
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Creapy but cool. Latinwaterpolo, post a picture of yours. Would love to see another take on this.
view La Vésigondine's profile
AWESOME!!! Absolutely genius.
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Wow...these are incredible....
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