Thursday 3/19 Entry

Fear

I have found that a lot of my work deals with fear. In some of it, I try to depict the fear as a tangible, or "photographable" thing. In some of it, the fear was personal, and I had to force myself to complete a task in order to photograph it successfully. Fear has always controlled what I did and did not do, and I tend to struggle with that concept in my work.

In a book I read a few months back, "Fear Itself: The Origin and Nature of the Powerful Emotion that Shapes Our Lives and Our World" by Rush W. Dozier, the author talks about the brains natural question: Fight or Flight. Fight being to stand ground against that which scares you and/or defend yourself, flight being to run away and attempt to escape the fear without facing it. This series deals with a different option: Ignore it. To the people in my current project, those fears simply don't exist. The viewer gets a sense of discomfort and thoughts of loneliless, one of the ultimate fears, while the subjects don't appear to even realize other people exist. The foundations of this fear of solitude can be question, leaving us with an intangible idea that has the power to drive a person insane.

*The images shown in this post are mine.*