Lindsay Duncanson - Statement

Homescapes is a series of still and moving images that investigate ideas of home, using illusions of scale, geometry and landscape. Using this universal symbol of home I look at how we create structures and frameworks to live in and by. How we deal with the world and its surroundings with a system of illusions. I am particularly interested in notions of home and how that is affected by its positioning within a landscape. Working with stills and moving imagery to express different concerns and ideas, from   projections of child- like drawings of symbols of home, to found structures and shapes within the landscape.

The still images of Homescapes create a nonlinear narrative that ask the viewer to make connections and links between the images. They are faced with a series of constructed images, found structures and dilapidated homes.

In the video piece Homescapes we see representations of structures and shapes reflected in primitive children's drawings of home. Projected into an unlit landscape the video shows the images fading and reforming in a repetitive flow, the noises of the night and the elements, heighten and enforce our desire for the security of the home, a defense against the   dark, to protect us from uncertainty. Except here the image is unstable, inconstant, changing.

Breath of a House plays on our sense of home as a stable and secure structure. Here the house is made of ice, and we watch it in a repetitive mediation of destruction and regeneration. It quietly references wider environmental ideas and the fragility of the structures that we create to live and work in whilst tapping into deeply imprinted ideas of home that we create and develop as children.