John Edwards : "Is there an uncanny side to Loughborough?"
Something is not quite right.
Its unfamiliar in such a way as to make one feel uneasy.
Its uncanny.

In his essay on "The Uncanny" Freud describes the concept of an instance where something can be familiar, yet foreign at the same time, resulting in a feeling of it being uncomfortably strange.
For me the familiar objects in an urban landscape takes on this feeling after dark. What should be a very ordinary scene takes on an air of mystery due to the effects of artificial lighting and strong shadow.
Artificial lighting lends each scene a cinematic feel, the feel of a different world created to support a narrative, where something is going to happen, or has just taken place.
In these worlds the more mundane the subject matter, the more mysterious the scene becomes.
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Helen Jean Cope Trust