Monday 5 March 2012

Uncanny

The "uncanny" is not a property of space itself nor can it be provoked by any particular spatial conformation: it is, in its aesthetic dimension, a representation of a mental state of projection that precisely elides the boundaries of the real and the unreal in order to provoke a disturbing ambiguity, a slippage between waking and dreaming.
The Architectural Uncanny, A. Vidler, 1992             

This clearly defines the difficulty in depicting uncanny through design and showing it in a project: it is not something that can ever be built. It is relative to perception and experience and as such elusive and ambiguous; not necessarily understood as such by everyone...





And this is what shows right at the top of a google image search of uncanny: an image by a British photographer David Rowan from his Pacha Kuti series.

Here is some more work by Rowan: