Holding the DOOR.
Twenty years standing at the door of nightclubs, deciding who gets in.
A lifetime as the artist told to wait outside.
Now, in the age of A.I., I'm building a DOOR where artists hold the keys.
I'm a creative. I kept hearing tech people speak on behalf of creativity
who have never picked up a brush or an instrument in their life.
Artists are like ants ...
we find our way through the cracks.
I'm not intimidated by technology.
But now, more than ever,
we have to keep our skin in the game — literally.
TWO DECADES OF TELLING STORIES.
Twenty years on nightclub doors across the Melbourne CBD, and twenty years on stages and screens — Shepard, Mamet, Wilson, McDonagh, Letts. The two halves were never separate: both were about who gets let in, and on whose terms.
Eight doors, from a loud family in Melbourne to the night I decided artists needed one of their own. Every one of them changed how the story got told — and why I ended up building DOOR.
The story that opened DOOR.
A film script that became a graphic novel. When the pandemic shut down production of DOORMAN, it was literally back to the drawing board as I spent
two years drawing the Melbourne and in the process planting the seed for DOOR.
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