Sideyards [2010]

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Sideyards [2010]

I knew Freud’s notion of the “uncanny” intuitively as a child from experiences staying overnight at friends’ houses. That sensation which he called, ”…that class of the frightening which leads back to what is known of old and long familiar" was palpable as the joy of the early evening slowly turned to a vague panic as the night progressed. There was something sinister in the adults' conversation heard through the walls. The now darkened yards were full of spirits. Out of sight behind the edge of a roof or beyond a pale window there was a signal. I had been there before. I felt a presence here—in the ordinary—which somehow remembered me. Using the distorted colors and flattened space of inkjet printed photographs, these paintings sought to access the place between constructed memory and imagined experience.