Gregory Crewdson - The Twilight Series.

Gregory Crewdson: Twilight series, 2001.

Gregory Crewdson, Untitled from the series 'Twilight', 2001.

In Crewdson's Twilight series he questions the overwhelming view of american suburbia, creating these uncanny and fearful narratives that shock and engage the audience. With reference to David Lynch's Blue Velvet the artist tackles the exotic view of suburbia, this ever growing silence and secure landscape that society know and love where the artist places a surreal twist on, thus drawing something deep and psychological out in which the audience responds to. 

Gregory Crewdson, Untitled from the series 'Twilight', 2001.

Crewdson's Twilight series was somewhat inspired by his early child hood in conjunction to the cinematic era of that time. As a young boy Gregory was often baffled by his father's profession as the mass of clients entered and left his father's office underneath the the floorboards to the basement. He would sometimes place his ear against the floor, attempting to catch a whisper of what was occurring, knowing it held something mysterious and secretive. Alongside some compelling films such as: Vertigo, Close Encounters of the Third Kind and Safe it was these that truly kick started Crewdson's work, producing these unnerving paranormal narratives that touched on the psychological emotions of the audience. 

Gregory Crewdson, Untitled from the series 'Twilight', 2001.

 I find that when I'm confronted by one of Crewdson's photographs I automatically attempt to associate what's going on with my memories, it's this that fuels my imagination to the interpretations of what is being conveyed  in which Im taken on a journey to. From the location where the narrative takes place in addition to other factors such as the lighting and the character the viewer feels invited in. You notice that the landscape is the focal point and it seems as if your in a film however frozen in this moment where a rush of thoughts and feelings become apparent.