Feeling unsettled 2: Doors

I'll begin by pointing out that I don't have a phobia concerning doors. But I think as an image, and the fact that we are surrounded and use doors all the time, that if we were to concentrate and really look at single doors, that we can be unsettled by them.

In thrillers, horror stories etc the devise of the door is common. It acts as a divide from one reality to another – 'What's on the other side of the door?' If something unseen begins to open the door from the other side, the door is all that stands between you and certain terror.

Sometimes late in an evening watching the tv on your own, the door slightly ajar, the lighting/atmosphere in the room beyond, darker and different from the room you're in. How often do you look over your shoulder to reassure yourself again that you're safe?

Then there are certain doors – doors that are necessarily unsettling due to purpose. Institutional doors, prison doors, dentists doors – these doors are all there is between safety and our fears.

Have a look at the three images and ask yourself which of the three is most unsettling.