As a child, one believes that an apple thrown up in the air doesn’t necessarily need to return to the ground. The rules of reality aren’t fully ingrained in us yet. This can result in us missing key events in our pasts and feeling uneasy at mundane things. This uncanny wonder leaves us once we reach a certain age. As a rational individual, I miss that sense of uncanny wonder that can be found in an irrational mind, that curiosity and fear at the shadows on a night time walk or in the banality of an empty house. I want to put that uncanny nature back into everyday life.
The non-human figures in my work are symbolic of the creatures that roamed the woods in the early years of human development. They only exist in places we haven’t turned into parking lots and buildings, yet sometimes we make believe they can exist anywhere. Interactivity with what we are afraid of and don’t understand pushes us forward.