The Body, The Haunted House.

text from those times by Anne Sexton: my body, the suspect in its grotesque house

image of a collage artwork by Shanice Bloodbloom. In the center of a white page sits a pastel pink house with larger-than-life sized pale and nearly grey and blue legs and arms protruding out of part of the front to sit limply on the ground. The positioning of the photo suggests that the owner of the legs and arms is either a giant girl stuffed into the house or the house itself. The photo has a grainy quality and is slightly drained of color.

A 3-D artpiece by Laurie Simmons called Walking House. A model of a house with brick walls, slate roof tiles, and a chimney sits on top of a pair of dainty mannequin's legs against a black backdrop. An eerie white light is shone on the walking house from the front, casting harsh shadows.

Text from the poem Ash by Tracy K Smith: Strange house we must keep and fill. House that eats and pleads and kills. House on legs. House on fire. House infested with desire. Haunted House. Lonely House. House of trick and suck and shrug. Give-it-to-me house. I-need-you-baby house. House whose rooms are pooled with blood. House with hands. House of guilt. House that other houses built. House of lies and pride and bone. House afraid to be alone. House like an engine that churns and stalls. House with skin and hair for walls. House the seasons singe and douse. House that believes it is not a house.

Text from a poem by Emily Dickinson: One need not be a chamber to be haunted. One need not be a house.

An image of the sculpture called Deconstructa (Deconstruct) by Tania Font: The photo of the sculpture is angled to look slightly downward on the face and shoulders of the statue. The sculpture is in a state of disrepair and degradation like a building under deconstruction. Cracks run along the skin. A large part of the face closest to the viewer, on the left, spanning from the area where the ear would be to the eye and rising to include most of the forehead has been knocked out, revealing the interior of the rooms of a house on the inside. The wallpaper of one room is white with a pink four pointed diamond pattern, and another has vertically striped peach and white wallpaper. A painting that seems to be taken from a renaissance painting of close-up of a woman's eyes is hung on the wall facing the outside of the face.

Text from Housewife by Anne Sexton: Some women marry houses. It's another kind of skin; it has a heart, a mouth, a liver and bowel movements. The walls are permanent and pink. See how she sits on her knees all day, faithfully washing herself down.

Image of a sculpture called Femme Maison by Louise Bourgeois. A minimalist white block that looks like a house sits on the ground. It is a rectangle with a triangle roof and one rounded indentation like a door in the center. A minimalistic woman's head sticks out of the left side, turned slightly from the ground to look at the viewer. Whether her eyes are opened or closed is impossible to tell. Her calves stick out of the right side of the house at a higher point so that her body must be positioned in a straight slope with her head pointing further towards the ground.

Text from the Haunting of Hill House by Mike Flanagan: Mom says that a house is like a body, and that every house has eyes... and bones... and skin... and a face. This room is like the heart of the house. No, not a heart, a stomach.

An image of a 3D artpiece called My House by Loren Siems. Against a black backdrop, a constructed model of a house sits on top of a cubic wood frame. The model is symmetrical and the front of the house faces the viewer. There is one door, two windows on either side, and three more identical and evenly spread windows on the second floor. The model is covered in a layer of knitted vivid red yarn, creating the impression that the house is made of knitted red yarn. The windows are dark but there appears to be cluttered objects in the house. A white string is caught in the bottom of the red door. Another string is attached to the chimney at the center of the roof.

Text from the Architecture of Deconstruction by Mark Wigley: The House is not simply the site of a particular subordination, a particular kind of violence. It is the very principle of violence. To dominate is always to house, to place in the domus. Domination is domestication.

An image from the videogame Anatomy by Kitty Horrorshow: A living room bathed in red light. The photo is angled so that the viewer is looking towards the corner of the room, and the boxy older TV is in the center of the frame. The room is only in varying dark shades of one red, but the TV appears to show light red static. Two chairs in darkness frame either side of the viewer, pointed away and towards the TV. TV static also runs across the photo and everything appears grainy.

Text from Anatomy by Kitty Horrorshow: And if we were to dissect a house, we would find ourselves a stomach throat spine and eyes and eyes teeth and sinew and dreams and memories and a mouth that will bite down.

The body, the haunted house.

Those Times by Anne Sexton // Dream House by Shanice Bloodbloom // Walking House by Laurie Simmons // Ash by Tracy K. Smith // One need not be a chamber by Emily Dickinson // Deconstructa III by Tania Font // Housewife by Anne Sexton // Femme Maison by Louise Bourgeois // The Haunting of Hill House by Mike Flanagan // My House by Loren Siems // The Architecture of Deconstruction by Mark Wigley // Anatomy by Kitty Horrorshow

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