I bought these two Mannequins from eBay. There is a sort uncanny-ness, between them…
The Uncanny in Freud;
Turning to psychoanalysis in the context of doll images is not motivated just by the fact that Freud used the example of the doll as central case to illustrate the idea of the uncanny [..] but from the fact that psychoanalysis opens up the possibility of thinking about dolls as constituting an image in which pleasure and displeasure, living beauty and uncanny in-animation, are conflated.
This very idea that the doll represents the impossible encounter between innocent beauty and uncanny effects (the uncanny being, according to Freud, one type of anxiety that the encounter with art can elicit) may provide a preliminary explanation to my interest in the doll image and account for the choice of such images in order to consider the possibility of an aesthetics that exceeds the distinction between beauty and its opposites, between the pleasing and the anxiety-provoking object.
The Doll, Look the Doll in the Eyes: The Uncanny in Contemporary Art.
by Ruth Ronen January 1, 2004
With one of the Mannequins, I decided to represent my Stroke…
With the other, I when’t right back to the beginning…
I haven’t got many veins, due to the cancer treatment when I was age two years of age…
When I was in Hospital they could not get access to any veins. The only option, was to get the blood out of my neck. From today, it takes three attempts, for them to access my veins…
Here is one of the final scenes from Resident Evil…
Here is a scene from Saw 2…
Here is a clip from Hellraiser IV: Bloodline
I wanted to represent this image of me trying to get blood out of anywhere I can. I know now, how it feels to be a Crack head!!!
Referenced Franko B – I Miss You…
Franko had canulars put into his arms, letting all the blood drip out onto the clean floor. He almost always paints himself completely white each time he does his performances, to hide his scars. His tattoo’s.
