"I'm drawn to the depth and strangeness of things,"
"I want something that feels slightly uncomfortable. I can tell when I'm looking at a piece of art if the artist was able to let go enough for something strange to come through."
"I want to stay away from the viewer's relationship to the person and keep it about the experience and iconography of the image,"
"I tried to envision this middle-aged woman walking down the street where you might do a double-take and have all these questions about what is going on."
"A friend's child said something which I love, 'I know it, but I don't know it.' I like it when you feel you know what you're looking at, but then it doesn't make sense."
Shannon Cartier Lucy paints alluring, unnerving images that are often tightly cropped to present semi-obscured slices of activity and invite viewer inference. The show Woman With a Juice Box at Soft Opening in east London stages uncanny domestic moments — a child's pink bendy straw in a suited man's hand, bare legs kneeling on rows of yellow pencils, and a veiled woman clutching a juicebox. Lucy's training as a psychotherapist informs a surreal edge, prioritizing experience and iconography over identifiable faces. Photographic cropping and familiar objects create a recognisable-yet-disorienting effect that feels slightly uncomfortable.
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