HEEBIE-JEEBIES
A12 “Heebies-Jeebies”, solo show, Pinksummer gallery, Genoa, Italy, march 2006 Heebie-jeebies is a work focused on the ailments of psychological origin (phobias in the most serious cases) related to space: heebie-jeebies is an English colloquial term that means anxiety, psychological distress. The term was coined around 1923 by Billy De Beck a cartoonist; in 1926 Heebie jeebies became the title of a successful jazz piece, performed among others by Louis Armstrong, eventually the term became common and formalized.
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