'Unheimlich'

These sketches are based around Sigmund Freud's concept of the uncanny and the term 'Unheimlich'. Though Ernst Jentsch a German psychiatrist who also wrote a book and an essay on the uncanny believes that a 'particularly favourable condition for awakening uncanny feelings is created when there is intellectual uncertainty whether an object is alive or not, and when an inanimate object becomes too much like an animate one.' This view of the uncanny is what interests me the most. 

The first is a sketch of a mannequin and the 2nd is of a real person  in which i have tried to look more like a mannequin. I want to experiment with the concept of the uncanny.

Both are on A4 paper using various pencils ranging from 2B-9B.

Quote obtained from The “Uncanny” by Sigmund Freud

http://people.emich.edu/acoykenda/uncanny1.htm