LOCUS

Definition:

locus

noun ( pl. loci )

 

• a particular position, point, or place

• the effective or perceived location of something abstract

 

ORIGIN early 18th cent.: from Latin, ‘place.’

 

 

The study of the uncanny is at the core of my work. It is a feeling built around uncertainty, a conflict of emotions, trapped between the security of familiarity and the fear of the unknown.

 

I find this feeling particularly apparent when walking amongst the red brick estates of suburbia. Each home a solitary bubble; the lives within hidden from sight. So many people living in close proximity completely isolated from one another.

 

The dark distorting our perception of the mundane setting in which so many of us lead our lives.

 

Each painting is an attempt to capture that moment of time, caught in the imperceptible shift between cosiness and dread.