Purgatory - Twin Peaks meets The Shining

April 22, 2013

Red curtain, dancing little man, and zigzag floor from Twin Peaks transitions into the young boy and hexagonal floor from The Shining

Both the red room from Twin Peaks and The Outlook Hotel from The Shining can be seen as a purgatory of sorts. They also both have extremely iconic floor patterns. One day I noticed that I could combine the two patterns rather easily, and after a few weeks of work, the final product was finished. Originally, I created the images without the characters, but in the end decided to add them in.

You can view a larger version of the poster on its Deviantart page.

Recognition

In late April 2012, after the project had sat on my computer desktop for over a month, I finally published the work online. For the next few weeks, it seemed like everywhere I turned people were talking about it.

The Welcome to Twin Peaks Facebook page post about it received 4,500 likes/shares in just a few weeks.
A Tumblr page devoted to the fictional Overlook Hotel from The Shining received 3,000 likes/shares on their post about it.
Award-winning documentarian and DVD/Blu-ray producer Charles de Lauzirika (who I met during production of the Twin Peaks DVD box set that I am briefly featured on) posted it on Facebook and was happy to know he knew the creator.
Director Lee Unkrich (Toy Story 3, Toy Story 2, Finding Nemo) tweeted about it (he’s a huge The Shining fan).
Director Mark Romanek, who directed some of the best music videos in the world retweeted Unkrich’s post. Romanek has directed videos such as David Bowie’s Jump They Say, Madonna’s Rain and Bedtime Stories, Michael and Janet Jackson’s Scream, Nine Inch Nails’ Closer, Johnny Cash’s Hurt, and Lenny Kravitz’s Are You Gonna Go My Way to name just a few.

Needless to say, I’m very happy with its popularity.