by AY Jackson
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ART OF THE LOBBY BACK HALL
BEAVER SWAMP ⎔ BOG OAK ⎔ MAKAH RETURNING IN THEIR WAR CANOES ⎔ MALIGNE LAKE, JASPER PARK ⎔ MIST FANTASY, SAND RIVER, ALGOMA ⎔ MYSTERIES (CARMICHAEL) ⎔ OXBOROUGH ⎔ PLOVERS ⎔ RED MAPLE
APPEARANCE
Down the hall when Jack’s heading to Ullman’s for the interview, and in every other shot of this part of the hotel until…
…Wendy sees Hallorann’s corpse, when it disappears between shots. Until…
…it reappears in the bloodfall hall, in the same sequence with the other Go7s from the lobby back hall.
IDENTITY
Jackson was another war artist, like Varley, and perhaps the reason his work is removed from the main lobby has to do with the fact that he returned from wintering on Georgian Bay(!) to discover that he had been inducted into the Go7 without being asked about it. He was also known as a loner, despite being involved in a few Canadian art groups, at or near the head position in the group.
HISTORIC/GEOGRAPHIC SIGNIFICANCE
This one was from a sketch made along the Oxtongue River in Algonquin Park (Jack bears a connection to the minotaur).
Debuted in 1914, like Northern River. This means, of the four Group of Seven paintings we see during Jack’s first stroll through the lobby, two are from ’14 and two are from ’21. Multiples of seven…
SYMBOLIC SIGNIFICANCE
This painting is right in front of Hallorann when he gets axed (the only art visible at the time), and Danny experiences that murder through his shining power. So perhaps the placement of a “Jackson” painting is saying, “Jack’s son” is bearing witness (and perhaps that’s why it disappears when Wendy is bearing witness).
Also, I just made an enormous discovery that the film can be folded not once (to create the mirrorform), but twice, such that you can watch four layers of the film unfurling in sequence. And one of the things Kubrick used to show the reality of this effect was this painting, Red Maple, which appears (on and offscreen) at key moments through that version. This is a complex theory, so start here if you want to learn all about that.
THE BLOODFALL HALL
There may be some connection between all the river imagery in the paintings of the bloodfall hall: Red Maple, December Afternoon, Mist Fantasy, and Beaver Swamp all feature water in different states: a rushing river, a wavy lake, a still river and a still swamp respectively. Also the names seem to tell a story:
Red = blood
Fantasy = the nature of the bloodfall, which crosses from Danny’s vision into Wendy’s reality
December Afternoon refers to the month that these events are taking place in
Beaver Swamp is also known as Evening, Algoma, and Wendy finds the bloodfall hall sometime after 5:25pm (the time Jack stalks upon Danny before the maze race)
A December Fantasy of a Red Swamp.
Next art reference: Mt. Hood Seasonal Photos
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THE MIRRORFORM ⎔ THE BEATLES ⎔ THE RUM AND THE RED
BACKGROUND ART ⎔ OVERLOOK PHOTOGRAPHS ⎔ GOLDEN SPIRALS
PHI GRIDS ⎔ PATTERNS ⎔ VIOLENCE AND INDIGENA ⎔ ABSURDITIES
THE STORY ROOM ⎔ ANIMAL SYMBOLS ⎔ THE ANNOTATED SHINING
EYE SCREAM 