Mind The Cracks

Janet Broughton

Janet Broughton constructs psychological landscapes by layering original photography with digital brushwork and tactile textures. This work visualizes the specific, creeping dread of a child’s imagination, where the gaps in the physical world become portals for the unknown.

Mind The Cracks — framed, leaning against the wall
Janet Broughton

Mind The Cracks

Janet Broughton constructs psychological landscapes by layering original photography with digital brushwork and tactile textures. This work visualizes the specific, creeping dread of a child’s imagination, where the gaps in the physical world become portals for the unknown.

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Navigating the shadows between the cracks of a dream.

Part of the Landscapes of Dreams series, this piece finds its pulse in the folklore of childhood—the "monsters between the cracks" with their "long hairy fingers." Broughton uses a square frame to anchor a scene that feels both expansive and intimate, blending photographic reality with painterly interventions to suggest a world that is literally coming apart at the seams.

The artist employs an orchestration of rustic elements and intricate line work to build a sense of profound solitude. By merging environmental footprints with abstract concepts, the composition invites the viewer to look closer at the textures of the earth, where the mundane surface of a landscape reveals the shadows of a deeper, more enigmatic narrative.

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