“One of the most successful devices for easily creating uncanny effects is to leave the [viewer] in
uncertainty.”
-Sigmeund Freud, “The ‘Uncanny’”
I’m interested in making people uncomfortable. Through the exploration of the uncanny, I exploit the
unexpected and the psychological to embrace personal reactions. Like conversations we have with
ourselves in the mirror, there’s an uncomfortable nature in looking beyond surface value. Utilizing beauty
as a strategy and the laws of attraction, my work intends to entice a visual response only to be met with
ambivalence. I try to establish a state of uncertain worlds, partial and personal, systematic and instinctual,
residing in physical spaces and emotional responses leaving the viewer with a sense of familiar unease.
uncertainty.”
-Sigmeund Freud, “The ‘Uncanny’”
I’m interested in making people uncomfortable. Through the exploration of the uncanny, I exploit the
unexpected and the psychological to embrace personal reactions. Like conversations we have with
ourselves in the mirror, there’s an uncomfortable nature in looking beyond surface value. Utilizing beauty
as a strategy and the laws of attraction, my work intends to entice a visual response only to be met with
ambivalence. I try to establish a state of uncertain worlds, partial and personal, systematic and instinctual,
residing in physical spaces and emotional responses leaving the viewer with a sense of familiar unease.
