While I was living in Berlin, I found a book called “Erfinder und Erfindungen,” or “Inventors and Inventions” at a flea market – a 1921 German book chronicling technological innovation. The drawings are all on pages from the book.

This compendium was published two years after Freud's landmark essay on the uncanny; in the strange, decadent, and tense interwar period. As I approached these images, I wanted my drawn intervention to highlight the folkloric, eerie aspects of our relationship to technology.

The drawings ended up ranging from comic to fearful; in some cases I wanted to engage the deifying form of the portraits themselves – drawing my own captions in the blackletter style of the original, or retaining the frame of the portrait but obscuring the caption with a still-more-obscure figure.