Incubus

The original book dummy for the ongoing series Jamais Vu — a photographic inquiry into the cognitive phenomenon of déjà vu’s inverse: when the familiar becomes suddenly, profoundly strange.

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The word incubus — the figure that sits upon the sleeper, pressing down with an inexplicable weight — gives this early iteration its title. The sensation it names is close to what the photographs pursue: a pressure from the real world, felt but not understood.