The domestic interior is imbued with human presence. Often, a personal connection is formed between a house and its inhabitants; it is a repository of belongings, memories, aspirations and records.

An abandoned home wrought with decay and neglect, on the other hand, signifies failure, deterioration, loss and unfulfilled dreams.

Images such as these act as a metaphor for any number of life’s transitions: from changing careers, growing a family, or enduring financial hardship. They may even symbolize the experience of declining health or even the passing of a life. For human existence is constantly in flux—metamorphosing and transforming—in which the means of passage could very possibly be as simple as a door.