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decided on visuals for each chapter

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notes and chapter updates

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annotate the images below

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1. introduction - introduce the topic and talk a little bit about the overall concept and idea of the “uncanny” and the “unheimlich.”

2. What is uncanny? The unheimlich? How is it shown in media and art? (Looking at different movies or books such as Coraline, alien, the ring, also bring up artists, new and old, who implement these types of themes in their work, David Lynch, Man Ray.)

3. Why does the uncanny evoke such strange feelings? Are we feeling anxiety and fear of something that we have repressed? (Bringing in the ideology behind Liminal spaces, dreamwork. Delving deeper into freud's concept of why we feel the things we do, what certain aspects trigger certain things etc.)

4. Counter theories that discuss the same topic, but approach the meaning and outlook in a different way. (Counter the theory discussed with other arguments such as Lacan’s theory or Jetsch theory, etc. use these other theories to build on my own opinion of the topic and further bring in even more research to back up the response to my question i’m slowly building, talk about my work and how it compares or differs to these theories, similarities and etc.)

5. Conclusion & bibliography

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"i began with the idea in mind that i was originally going to be completing a practical dissertation, due to there being MANY visual references i could stem ideas and inspiration from to create what i wanted to create, which was a short animated film that would explain the concept of unheimlich through my surreal paintings and characters, however, after considering my strong suits and points ive decided to go down the written route, which would suit my work better because of my extensive research."

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rLy-AwdCOmI ( i feel fantastic og video - human likeness )

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PEikGKDVsCc vsauce- annoying guy but he touches on the idea of uncanny valley and talks about Cognitive Dissonance and why we get creeped out.

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began to focus in on my research and really get an idea of what i wanted to focus on in my writing.

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creating uncanny art- putting my creations in real spaces- creating a sense of anxiety and helping to figure out exactly what uncanny makes me feel

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made an attempt to begin writing the dissertation! keeping in notes for myself to go back and remove and add depending on whats working and what isn't - 1.3K words

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peaboy3 on tiktok creates "derealism" posts which explores a disorder i wasnt aware of until recently. i found her work inspiring and created my own inspired by it which is linked below- i feel as if its certainly uncanny and i may use it in future reference. her use of realistic things in a strange context make it definitely unnerving

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my attempt at it - created for a project but relating to my dissertation

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record yourself doing mundane things. change some aspect of that to be unsettling (e.g) edit yourself to look away in the mirror whilst you're facing the camera or water entering glass as you drink from it

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visit to the whitechapel gallery
print off some images to annotate

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http://shura.shu.ac.uk/10371/3/McCarthy_unhomely_home_HSA_Paper_2015_%282%29.pdf

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Meret Oppenheim bought a teacup, saucer and spoon from a department store in Paris and wrapped them in the cream-and-tan pelt of a Chinese gazelle. Her hirsute little offering became a defining artifact of surrealism.
This being the age of Freud, a gastro-sexual interpretation was inescapable: the spoon was phallic, the cup vaginal, the hair pubic. For some, the tongue-shaped spoon brought to mind unpleasant sensations of a furry tongue. Others experienced unease at seeing a graceful item of the tea table transformed into something decadent and animalistic.

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putting together various normal images in a weird context giving it a surreal feelings. the use of bright red tones and sharp angles adding a feeling of danger to the piece, combined with the menacing expression on the sun, which normally obviously doesnt have a face, making it uncanny.

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https://www.jstor.org/stable/42967452?seq=1#metadata_info_tab_contents - summary of reading the uncanny

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Liz Allison, Reading the Uncanny, The Cambridge Quarterly, Vol. 33, No. 3 (2004), pp. 277-281

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putting something unreal in a real space - creation of my masks for upcoming photoshoot

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Jentsch identifies a German writer in particular E.T.A. Hoffman and in particular his story “Sandman.” in which he uses uncanny aspects within the book. The plot introduces a lifelike doll called Olympia who was only relieved to be an automaton, or robot towards the end of the book, this incites to another character, Nathaniel descending into madness. There is also the element of uncertainty that is introduced through the plot of Nathaniel and an experience with the “Sandman” during his childhood, but he is unsure if it is fabricated or it actually happened, this in itself is an uncanny element.

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lake brenig - a place thats uncanny to me using my mask and my little sister as a model. placing something strange in an already uncanny place

eye representing the castration theory. the all seeing and the observation.

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continuation from previous

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continuation from previous - within the canvas is imagery that i have painted during my time visiting lake brenig over the years since i was a child. my visualisation of the place changing over time and becoming more and more distorted.

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location of where i took the photos. very specific part of north wales with no map indicators to get there. was really hard to find tbh but i felt i had to go back there. the uncanny feeling or just hiraeth? not sure

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Sandman_(short_story)

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"The Sandman" tells the story of the young student Nathanael who falls into madness when he realizes he's fallen in love with a robot. "The Sandman" is a stark visual exploration of an uncanny world.

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5000 words in and i want to start concluding my essay and work back into it.
1) answer question
2) how did it benefit me / how is this dissertation relevant to my practise
3) things i would change
4) would this inform my final major project? how does it relate (mention it basically being the backbone to my project)

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When we talk about states of being and existing within them, “Dreamwork” is an idea that comes to mind. Dreamwork is described to be a unique understanding of a specific person’s dream or their meaning, Freud has a theory on this topic where he states an idea that a person's forbidden and repressed desires (ID) are distorted in dreams, so they appear in disguised forms. Freud used to refer to "operations that transform the latent dream-thought into the manifest dream" as dreamwork.

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going to primary locations and seeing how they felt
- llyn brenig
- rusty boat
- camden after dark
- kidspace

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i asked people how this image made them feel on instragam - an illustration i created to showcase the uncanny purposely, their responses are listed below.

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1 - a lot of people saying uncomfortable and unsettled.

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2 - responses with questioning, reality, being watched, etc.