Return of the Repressed
“We may suppose that the repressed exercises a continuous pressure
in the direction of the conscious, so that this pressure must be
balanced by an unceasing counter-pressure.”
—Sigmund Freud
The images in ‘Return of the Repressed’ were created using a flatbed scanner. Flowers, leaves and seed-pods were pressed against a photographic negative and then scanned. The images look like a photogram combined with a photograph. The white shapes obscure sections of the negative, and often there is a blurring of scale as small objects are juxtaposed next to human figures, buildings and landscapes.
