Threshold, Mixed Media Photography

The Original

Threshold by Robin Rivers is an original piece of mixed media photography from the Albertine Series. I created this piece using my original photography that has not been digitally altered, acrylic medium and gold. 

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The Inspiration for Threshold by Robin Rivers

Through the Albertine series, I wanted to explore how memory and time fragment, reconstructing themselves into spaces that live vividly in our experience, even when they are not a faithful representation of the original. Threshold combines the image of the back gate of Chateau d’Orquevaux and a trail outside the village of Orquevaux in the Champagne-Ardene region of France. This piece explores the unknown barriers that keep Henri and Albertine apart. The gate of stone—full of history, decay, and secrets—serves as a guard post at the entry to the calm forest path beyond. How is love gatekept? What are the conditions that allow two people to enter one another’s lives? 

The Artist

Robin Rivers is a multidisciplinary storyteller. She explores cultural memory keeping and technologies of circulation—how stories and images travel between people and across generations. Her practice folds writing and original photography into my mixed-media collage process. She examines how documented archives and personal interpretation shape our shared understanding of the past and how preservation itself is shaped by power, privilege, and historical upheaval. Robin creates all pieces at Studio Albertine in Vancouver, Canada—on the unceded territory of the Coast Salish Peoples. This includes the territories of the xʷməθkwəy̓əm (Musqueam), Skwxwú7mesh (Squamish), and Səl̓ílwətaʔ/Selilwitulh (Tsleil-Waututh) Nations.

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