My practice explores Freud’s theory of the uncanny by placing familiar objects in unfamiliar contexts. The theory claims that feelings of the uncanny (an eerie, anxious feeling) occur when our adult experiences remind us of our childhood beliefs. As a child who firmly believed that my teddies could talk, I decided to explore this phenomenon through drawings of children’s toys which have been removed from their original context by removing any colour or background, and enlarging their size. Objects once associated with comfort and nostalgia have become these unsettling, almost threatening figures – evoking feelings of the uncanny upon
viewing them.