Fear and Anxiety

My project conveys fear and anxiety. I found this topic interesting; emotions are persuasive topic to be used with art because art is a place or maybe space where a person could easily represent feelings through it, for me at least!

The sculpture is an environment where I can express and aim all sorts of things. I chose to demonstrate fear and anxiety since they are carrying the same negative feelings, yet they have a different concept. Fear is mostly about being panic of something that is going to happen or is happening. On the other hand, anxiety is a long term worry -unconsciously- like being unpleasant of a situation; anxiety is a form of mental disorder. My little sculpture represents both of those feelings; the head rotates from 9 different angles to show the sense of fear by constantly checking (moving) around. It starts from 90° moving to 70°, 110°, 50° and 130°, 20°, 170°, 0°, and ends at 180°. The exposed brain was added to represent anxiety, the unconscious fear that lives inside the human brain. I was planning to use the 3-6 motor to spin the brain separately from the servo to convey the difference between the appearing fear and the hidden anxiety. For the usage of this project, I decided to go simple and expose the brain to the sight to emphasize the idea of the unconscious fear (anxiety) too.    

       

 Source
Öhman, Arne. "Fear and anxiety." Handbook of emotions (2008): 709-729.

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