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March 11, 2004
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Of all the LeMarchand [link] boxes thus far discovered, this, the "Box of Gateways" is the only one that has defied all attempts to pin it to a date - it is white gold inlaid onto a black stained oak base and unusual in that it has no runes or text or other markings on its faces, just pure geomectric design.

Many suggestions have been made about the reasons behind the unprecedented number of "gateway" designs and the possible arcane implications behind the fourteen : six ratio of gateways to faces - it has even been rumoured that the box is not a LeMarchand, but a previously undocumented box by Albertus Magnus [link] , and the direct inspiration behind the designs of the boxes of LeMarchand, although evidence supporting or resisting this theory has proved impossible to come by.
All that is known as fact is that the box was found in 1998 in a house in the centre of England when new home owners cleaned out their loft. It was later sold on a well known internet auction site (as a post 1900 paperweight) where it raised a total of £78 (GBP)... the box of Gateways was then subsequently re-sold via private Auction in Paris for a little under three quarters of a million dollars to an anonymous American buyer.

Some three years later in late 2003 the american owner of the box dissapeared and his estates (including the box) were auctioned in order to pay off his huge debts, most of which seem to have accrued in the final two years of his life.
the location of the box is currently unknown.

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the box of gateways was inspired by Hellraisers Box of Sorrows and made in photoshop by Steelgohst

a tutorial on this piece is available here> [link]


Other Hellraiser inspired boxes by steelgohst -

Box of Pleasures - [link]
Box of Grief - [link]
Enigme - [link]
the Acerbus configuration - [link]
LeMarchands ring -
[link]
Abyssus Daedalus, the labyrinth configuration - [link]

steelgohst@hotmail.com
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Box of Gateways by ~steelgohst is a greatly detailed dark wallpaper, and amazingly was created 100% in Photoshop. Along with it, comes a little history of this particular geometric shape and its details. ( Featured by `syragon )
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~theripper93 Mar 30, 2012  New member
hi, i really enjoyed your illustration, can i use it as youtube thumbnail(with credits of curse)
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~steelgohst Apr 2, 2012
sure

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~carcaliusca Jun 6, 2011
nice, is this yours?

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~steelgohst Jun 6, 2011
the box doesnt exist in the real world, I made this in photoshop..

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~carcaliusca Jun 6, 2011
ok then, it locks really really really realistic....

now about you avatar. made in photoshop too..?..
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~steelgohst Jun 6, 2011
yep, from a photo.... Check out my gallery for a proper self portrait.

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~carcaliusca Jun 7, 2011
o.k. . .. :)
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~907-Lurker Jun 17, 2010
Looks like Pandoras box........ something right out of Hellraiser
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~lux-x-aeterna May 29, 2010  Student General Artist
It looks *incredibly* real. ...Wow.

~lux
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=Ryuukotsu Mar 25, 2009  Student Photographer
thank youfor the tutorial! so simple and so many possibilities *-*

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