Little Coloured Bricks

Lego can always be equated with the term ‘limitless’. There are indeed an infinite number of things you can do with Lego bricks.

For Mark Doyle, Lego bricks give him an opportunity to create unique masterpieces that can only be described by the term “wow”.

While most people prefer creating that is ‘beautiful’ and ‘functional’, Mark Doyle approached his Lego-building from a point of view that few only try to achieve. The concept of deterioration, according to Mark: “offer unique opportunities from a visual point of view. The deterioration transforms materials. Texture on top of texture, as new patterns overtake old ones.” Mark Doyle creates any familiar object or form, and portrays its deterioration, creates an interesting visual presentation. Add to it the fact that he entirely makes his pieces out of Lego.

One of Mark’s latest creations, a deteriorated Victorian house, offers the viewer a look of the passing of what once was a glorious era in western history. His deteriorated Victorian offers the dilapidated feature of an old three-storey house. Arched windows, moldings, even the iconic roof tiles creates such a stunning piece that only Mark can conjure.

After much planning, and abandoning them, Mark’s second installment to his House series finally took shape. Using only grey, black, white, and other non-colored bricks and pieces, this wrecked three-storey Victorian house is gloomy, and full of emotion. The “duality”, he says, is the viewer’s imagination of what used to be a glorious Victorian-era house, as one looks through the wrecks and cracks of this now-dying structure. This duality in what we perceive, he says, is “magic.”

In his blog, Mark Doyle says he used anywhere between fifty to sixty thousand Lego pieces. Entirely done with Lego, he used no paint or glue. This particular piece, he mentions in his blog, took about 450 hours. Wow!