In Again and again we are somewhere, Dusadee Huntrakul renders in a seemingly automatic fashion a visage from a nightmare he experienced, hastily sketched in a bid to capture the memory of a fading dream. A fear stemming from confusion and feelings of being lost is the predominant theme of the work – and in this particular nightmare, the artist’s loss of his brother has manifested in his subconscious now as disorientation in an unfamiliar environment. An amorphous figure dominates the drawing, standing in the foreground of a crudely executed landscape featuring an unknown mountain (or is it a pyramid?), and as in the other pieces, waves. The identity of the figure is terrifying, but unknown – and from a psychoanalytic viewpoint can be seen as symbolic of the artist’s fear and dread manifest in an anthropomorphic form.
