Repressed Structures
‘Negation is a way of acknowledging the repressed, indeed it amounts to a lifting of the repression’ (Freud, The Uncanny)
Covering or concealing and yet demanding our attention, perhaps more interesting than what’s in plain sight. Coping mechanisms as an external armour and skin to the outside world; originally existing as a temporary solution yet coming to adopt their own form and relation to the world. Shape, colour and texture is shaped by what’s underneath, inaccessible to us except when revealed in unexpected or intriguing ways.