365 Doors: About

The 365 Doors Project is a challenge I gave myself: find and snap pictures of a door for every day of a year.

And not just doors in the literal meaning of the word, but portals, gates, windows and thresholds. Any physical or symbolic entryway dividing two worlds  is fair game for a collection of “doors.”

Why?

Doors symbolize: “hope, opportunity, opening, passage from one start or world to another, entrance to new life, initiation, both opportunity and liberation” (Chou WisdomPortal). Doors are an invitation to imagine, whether or not we’re invited through them. Behind every door there is something we’ve yet to experience, even if it’s the door to our own living space. What is on either side of the door is always in a state of change—as are we.

We erect doors, tear down doors and walk through them every day and in each creation, destruction and passage, there is something going on within us, even if it’s simply the movement from den to living room, into the office building or into class. Every passage through a door is the start of a new experience, a potential adventures.

Do I know what’s behind all of the doors I’m documenting? I don’t, no. But, that only invites me (and whoever looks at the posts) to imagine the infinite possibilities on the other sides of these doors.

Some of the doors will be closed, some will be open. Some of them will be figurative and will be closed or open depending on who looks at them and the state that individual is in. Some of the doors will be static, with nothing passing through them, no action being worked upon them. Some will be being opened or closed, being passed through, worked upon.

So, feel free to peruse, imagine and contemplate.

The door above is the open door into my apartment, at the very top of my winding blue stairs. It’s humble, but it’s the doorway into my home. Welcome.

Thanks for looking!

—Sara