{"product_id":"the-threshold-2023-by-monster-chetwynd","title":"The Threshold, 2023 by Monster Chetwynd","description":"\u003cp style=\"margin: 0cm; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 16px;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 16px; font-family: 'NJFont Book', sans-serif; color: black;\"\u003eMonster Chetwynd’s new limited-edition artwork, \u003cem\u003eThe Threshold\u003c\/em\u003e, accompanies her ambitious commission at Gloucester Road Tube station, Pond Life: Albertopolis and the Lily; a sculptural intervention, designed to span the 80-metre disused platform, and a new film Who named the Lily?, which celebrates and laments the complicated history of the Crystal Palace.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"margin: 0cm; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 16px;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 16px; font-family: 'NJFont Book', sans-serif; color: black;\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"margin: 0cm; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 16px;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 16px;\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: 'NJFont Book', sans-serif; color: black;\"\u003eThe Threshold\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: 'NJFont Book', sans-serif; color: black;\"\u003e is inspired by Chetwynd’s childhood expeditions to the Natural History Museum, where she would look in awe at the glass cases of hundreds of jewel-coloured taxidermied hummingbirds. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"margin: 0cm; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 16px;\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"margin: 0cm; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 16px;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 16px;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: 'NJFont Book', sans-serif; color: black;\"\u003eIt also references Lewis Carroll’s Alice in Wonderland, specifically when Alice begins crying, and then as she shrinks is deluged by a flood of her own tears. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"margin: 0cm; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 16px;\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"margin: 0cm; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 16px;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 16px;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: 'NJFont Book', sans-serif; color: black;\"\u003eChetwynd’s hand collaged, multi-layered artwork reflects on altered states and thresholds – whether at the museum or beyond.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"line-height: 16px;\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"margin: 0cm; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 16px;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 16px; font-family: 'NJFont Book', sans-serif; color: black;\"\u003eDigital pigment print, with metallic graphite silkscreen and collage, on Somerset Velvet 330gsm.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"margin: 0cm; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 16px;\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"margin: 0cm; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 16px;\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"margin: 0cm; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 16px;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 16px; font-family: 'NJFont Book', sans-serif; color: black;\"\u003eEdition of 55, signed and numbered verso.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"margin: 0cm; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 16px;\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"London Transport Museum","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56443334033756,"sku":"477345","price":250.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0937\/8090\/2236\/files\/477345-the-threshold-2.jpg?v=1768216802","url":"https:\/\/shop.ltmuseum.co.uk\/products\/the-threshold-2023-by-monster-chetwynd","provider":"London Transport Museum","version":"1.0","type":"link"}