Unheimlich (Midas)
Rachel Ossip | 2015 | Graphic Design & Comparative Literature
The german word unheimlich translates to Wnglish’s “uncanny.” Contemporarily, heimlich means that which is behind the wall: a secret, foreign and strange, However, it derives from heim, or home, and once connoted that which is familiar, comfortable, warm. Simultaneously, unheimlich, uncanny, is that which is not secret (reveled) and that which was familiar, homey, but is no longer: comfortable objects and people turned to gold.
Rachel Ossip | 2015 | Graphic Design & Comparative Literature
The german word unheimlich translates to Wnglish’s “uncanny.” Contemporarily, heimlich means that which is behind the wall: a secret, foreign and strange, However, it derives from heim, or home, and once connoted that which is familiar, comfortable, warm. Simultaneously, unheimlich, uncanny, is that which is not secret (reveled) and that which was familiar, homey, but is no longer: comfortable objects and people turned to gold.
