This work explores my developing interest in the psychoanalytic concept of the uncanny. I am attempting to reflect Freud’s idea of negative aesthetics and seeking to understand the circumstances in which the familiar can become uncanny.
This work merges the idea of the familiar and the uncanny by playfully exploring the notion of Still Life within the context of the domestic, but emphasising the relationship between the body, its parts and domestic objects. I want this work to challenge the preconceptions of the traditional still life genre but at the same time create discomfort in the viewer. While holding on to some traditional still life artefacts I have introduced interesting juxtapositions to create a sense of out-of-placeness. In this case “life” has been in-still-ed in the image in the form of living elements.
“Fruit Bowl”
“Two glasses one bottle”
