Faculty of Art

Drawing and Painting

Madeline Macneil

Like Some Dumb Homosapien

The framed ‘transitional objects’(Winnicott,1971),the typewriter, rats nest, baseboards, vintage storybook, act as thematic signifiers that were organically scavenged for the installation. The painting acts as a tapestry of consciousness meant to resemble a domestic artifact; a personable entity in the painting's nature of accumulation. The canvas exists as a malleable domestic artifact like a bandage, blanket, or apron—one that is vulnerable with its ability to achieve damage or wear and tear.

“The family unit provides you a vesselwithin yourself to survive the verylimits of possibility sufficein the never-ending parallelsfestered in the illusionaryalienatedcreat-ure ofthehead”