Jacob Tolmie, Don't Look... Listen, 2012, exterior metal doors, structural steel, paint, 20'1" x 3'1" x 3', Castlegar Chamber of Commerce, Castlegar, British Columbia, Canada, Public sculpture permanent installation

"Don't Look... Listen" is a 20 foot tall public sculpture designed to arouse emotional, physical, and philosophical responses to associations with doors, their symbology, and their context in relation to memory, impacting the viewer with their material presence in monumental form.

The colors are patterned such that a visual nexus is created, focusing and channeling a reaction within the sculptural boundaries; the primary colors excite the body, stimulate the mind, and captivate attention.

A visual nexus; severing the gaze from the background, bouncing it from door to door, trapped within the repetitive colour positioning. Forbidding the gaze from leaving, the foreground asserts itself from its surroundings.