Without question my favorite was “Superstition” It has completely taken over my mind. It also links into this strange feeling I have that the uncanny is following me. I mean that the concept has become sentient and is following me. Which is the kind of paranoia that is part of the uncanny. See?
I have never seen something so unsettling and yet so simple. The modeled white torso and the mostly flat black insect like object over top of it, its terrifying, like a succubus. I read a bit about it, they discussed the fact that the most painterly aspects of the painting are the background and the torso while the main portion of the image, is black and with out detail. It seems like a black hole, and then with the two legs that move off of the creature that point so much to some sort of insect.
It interesting to look at this image and think about his technique of painting one image in a day, and that the image is specific to that day. I keep wondering what the day was like that he painted that.
There is such casualness to the painting. The lack of precision and the informality of the design makes me think of a doodle, something that was done while daydreaming, the release of a repressed memory. This is something that I would like to incorporate into my own work. His ability to take something so unsettling and then amakes it into an everyday event which makes the image terrifying. I really liked this exhibit and found that his work, while painting, is really linked to photography and the instantaneous moment.
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