Ainsley Wilcock
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Pareidolia
A lot of my art practice has involved an interest in human perception. Pareidolia is a phenomenon defined as the human tendency to seek meanings and patterns and a sense of the familiar through arbitrary objects. A process of
repetitively and monotonously experiencing abnormal meanings, that is entirely self-referential, solipsistic and paranoid. Pareidolia has evolved and adapted to describe a broader experience of tendencies in human perception.
The work Pareidolian Place engages with the idea of pareidolia in a domestic setting through the idea and cultivation of imaginative play. The work plays with a sense of place, space, perpective and perception in order to depict personal reconstructions of my childhood home through imaginative play and creation of an imaginary place or world.
Pareidolian Place
2011
graphite pencil on paper, assembled and stitched with cotton
variable dimensions
2011
detail 1
2011
detail 2
2011
detail 3
2011
detail 4
2011
detail 5
2011
detail 6
2011
detail 7
2011
detail 8
2011
detail 9
2011
detail 10
2011
detail 11
2011
detail 12
2011
detail 13
2011
detail 14
2011
detail 15
2011
detail 16
2011
detail 17
2011
detail 18
2013
graphite pencil on paper
29.7 x 42 cm
2013
graphite pencil on paper
29.7 x 42 cm
2013
graphite pencil on paper
29.7 x 42 cm
2011
graphite pencil on paper, assembled and stitched with cotton
variable dimensions
I acknowledge the Dharawal people as the Traditional Owners and Custodians of the land on which I was born, live, and work. I pay respects to their Elders past, present, and emerging.