BARTON, Nancy
Description
Fort Da Souvenir #3
Photograph and collage
37 x 27"
The title of this work comes from the expression “Fort/da” which refers to the game Freud observed his eighteen-month old grandson playing. The child would repeatedly throw objects while saying “fort” (gone) and upon finding them say “da” (there). In this game, according to Freud, the child was staging and restaging the disappearance of his mother and this, in turn, was akin to processing a traumatic event. In Fort da Souvenir #3 Barton uses this work as a means of similarly processing the traumatic death of her brother Bruce Barton.
Date
1996
Creator
BARTON, Nancy
United States, b. 1957
Source
Gift of Laurence A. Rickels
Identifier
2011.004.004
Collection
Citation
BARTON, Nancy and United States, b. 1957, “BARTON, Nancy,” UCSB ADA Museum Omeka, accessed October 15, 2024, http://art-collections.museum.ucsb.edu/items/show/4056.