Description
The Original
Threshold by Robin Rivers is an original piece of mixed media photography from the Misrememberings series. I created this piece using my original photography that has not been digitally altered, acrylic medium and gold.
The framed piece measures 25×26.5″. Shipping will be calculated based on location. Please note that colours and contrast vary between different monitors. The colours may not match your monitor’s display exactly. Additionally, copyright of my artwork does not transfer with purchase.
The Inspiration for Threshold by Robin Rivers
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. That is the territory the Misrememberings series explores.
Threshold layers two images I shot in and around Château d’Orquevaux in the Champagne-Ardenne region of France: the back gate of the château, and a trail winding through the forest beyond the village. The gate is stone — old, decaying, weighted with history and secrets it has no intention of surrendering. The path behind it is quiet, unhurried, open. The distance between them is only a few steps. It might as well be a lifetime.
A threshold is not a wall. It does not refuse you outright. It simply asks: what gives you the right to pass? And that is the more insidious question when it comes to Henri and Albertine. The barriers between them are not always named or visible. They are inherited, assumed, built slowly into the architecture of two lives by family, by society, by the accumulated weight of what people expect love to look like before they will allow it through.
How is love gatekept? What are the conditions that allow two people to truly enter one another’s lives?
I hand-treated each photograph with acrylic medium and gold before collaging them together — to mark the threshold as a place worth standing at, even when you cannot cross.
The Artist
Robin Rivers works across photography, collage, and text to recover the lives of women the historical record left out, overlooked, or misremembered—not as reconstruction, but as retrieval.
That work takes shape in the material each inquiry calls for: specific landscapes she photographs again and again, found photographs, writing, and archival fragments. The result sits deliberately between evidence and imagination: precise about sources while making room for intimacy, longing, and the gaps scholarship alone cannot fill. 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 xÊ·məθkwÉ™yÌ“É™m (Musqueam), Skwxwú7mesh (Squamish), and SÉ™lÌ“ÃlwÉ™taÊ”/Selilwitulh (Tsleil-Waututh) Nations.
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