self-portrait by the house wall

Self-portrait by the house wall is an expressionistic portrait of a state of being that exists somewhere on the fringes of consciousness. In her debut book, Anastasia Davis depicts the sometimes-alien qualities of a claustrophobic internal existence and its blurred boundary with the outside world. A theater of muted domestic details are contrasted with anonymous exterior surroundings. A disembodied staircase or the undulating light pattern against a bedroom door are experienced with the same fragmented scrutiny as an outcrop of exposed rocks in the forest, the sharp pitch of a rooftop or the shifting texture of ocean waves. Within this dreamy body of ongoing work, Davis evokes a sensorial experience that taps into memory, displacement and the mysteries of our perception.