This week I had a tutorial with Robin which has really helped to focus my ideas. I was beginning to feel a bit panicked as the weeks are passing so quickly and I have so many ideas on different directions I could take my work in. I’ve decided I want to concentrate on the house in which a crime or crimes have been committed. I want to play with the notion of the uncanny – a safe familiar place has become an eerie unnerving place. Something unspeakable has happened in a home.
Bedroom (2016) [ink on paper]
Cinema continues to influence me and so for my ink drawings I am taking images of rooms from films. I have taken screen shots of domestic interiors from the film Repulsion and Psycho. I want to take the viewer on a journey around the house and into rooms and dark spaces in the house. I want to draw your attention to certain things such as a locked door, a windowsill or a picture on a wall.
Ink pen in sketchbook
Sketchbook drawing, windowsill
I suppose you can think of it like the game of Cluedo. You enter each room and look at the clues, it is then for the viewer to decide the meanings of these visual clues. What I am hoping is from these visual clues the viewer feels disturbed – a feeling of the uncanny.
There’s No Place like Home
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