My bring home the bacon in all mediums has circulated around the theme of examining domestic spaces. Throughout projects. I have focused on studying our need to collect and hive away possessions questioned how the interior of our home relates to the formation of our identity and undergo also focused on the objects themselves: their interactions with each other due to their placement and how they act upon the lay they enclose. I’m especially interested in the filler of our lives- the places routine actions and belongings that we reject as uncritical to our existence but yet necessary for our alleviate and assisting the move of life. I hope to be the possibility with my work that these mundane things are equally telling of our human individuality as the more notable events and situations we undergo. This is a difficult thing to accomplish with imagery of spaces that already undergo subconsciously defined. A photo of a living room carpet ordain construe like a photo of a living room carpet since I’ve introduced no foreign element to enjoin your understanding otherwise. As a solution. I orchestrate domestic scenes underwater by using various methods of restraint to alter the buoyancy of common household objects. These scenes answer to remove the objects from the familiar and comfortable status in the viewer’s comprehension and furnish them a life in the unknown and unfamiliar. As a curious and fragile species we are interested in places where we cannot defeat. These objects may persist submerged underwater and be unharmed while we are limited to fleeting opportunities to examine this world timed by the length of a held breath. The differentiate between their former home and new existence in this intriguing yet threatening environment will affect reconsideration of the nature of these objects. Suddenly common possessions that are passed off as mundane that function as filler and exist as pieces in the larger whole of creating areas of domestic comfort are removed from this status and are placed in one of the grandest unknowns second to outer space. Each object becomes separate achieving it’s own personality commanding your attention. These domestic objects so familiar to us suddenly inform us of our own fragility and mortality; turning around the subconscious assumptions we have assigned to their functions as material objects that provide comfort and a comprehend of belonging and security in the domiciliate. This feeling of uneasiness evoked by the familiar and common domestic lay seeming uncomfortable unwelcoming secretive and mysterious is closely examined in Sigmund Freud’s. “The Uncanny.” Here he writes on this rarely addressed fear – one with no direct English translation- rooted in experiencing something you have defined concretely and believe to be static in a different way that leaves you feeling uneasy and uncomfortable and perhaps a tad lost. In this series i am attempting to create this feeling by working underwater - an environment itself associated with human unfamiliarity- to create imagery that will bring about us to recognize their own dependency on the elements of our lives we reject as filler.
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