Open Your Eyes to Another Reality returns to LXKeys as a video work that carries an early artistic statement into the present publication architecture of the ecosystem. The original creation from 16 October 2018 already placed LXKeys inside a language of passage, material presence and connected universes. The renewed video brings that first threshold forward through drawings, visual fragments and an edited movement suited to the current public gateway.
The title announces a visual action before it names a subject. To open the eyes means to enter a second field of attention, where architecture, faces, natural forms and symbolic bodies occupy the same plane. The images keep the discipline of pencil and line. They draw intensity through structure, contour, shadow and repetition. A face becomes a wall. A house becomes a head. A horse joins a city. A tree rises between built masses. The work treats matter as a place where figures and environments exchange roles.
The 2018 description already gave the work its central pressure. LXKEYS appeared as an artistic experience connecting multiple universes through nature and matter. Allan Hakel united the quintessence of being in an artistic work created and fixed in this world so that it remains there. That sentence still carries the artistic logic of the piece. The video presents drawings in sequence and fixes a passage from one universe to another, then lets the images occupy the public surface as evidence of that passage.
The renewed video changes the visibility of the archive. The early work returns with a contemporary publication rhythm, and the drawings gain a new editorial function. They now move from studio memory into a public sequence where image, authorship, memory and ecosystem position can align. The masks, bodies, houses, towers and animal forms carry the same matter forward with a more legible public role.
This return also clarifies the place of Allan Hakel inside LXKeys. The name carries the artistic layer of a larger authorial identity and opens a space where symbolic invention, visual staging and interpretive density can act with precision. The article records that layer through the video itself, through form, sequence and return. The work speaks first through its constructed surfaces. The authorial signature appears through the decision to keep the images in the world, to return to them years later, and to make the renewed sequence available as publication.
The phrase Life is a game. Let’s play closed the 2018 description with an invitation to enter the work actively. Years later, the renewed video gives that invitation a wider structure. The game has acquired an archive, a public gateway and a system of continuity. Open Your Eyes to Another Reality now stands as a visual threshold in the LXKeys corpus, a work where early matter returns, gains publication form and connects the first artistic impulse to the current architecture of visibility.
Current Publication Video — May 1, 2026
Original 2018 Archive Video — October 16, 2018