Spider

To continue my phobia project i made a life size model of a tarantula using wire, mesh, moulding clay, acrylic and steel wool.  In order to communicate the idea that it creates fear in me i played around with typography and came up with this.  To make the web i used a glue gun which once dried i was able to peel off and move around.  I really liked the idea of using typography mixed with demonstrative photography that i continued with it and did the same for several other fears that people had written in my questionnaire.


I focused on fears that i would be able to represent visually, which were Fear of the dark, fear of drowning, fear of heights fear of blood, fear of doctors, claustrophobia and fear of death.

 

Above is the final photographs for fear of doctors, which is tablets with the word fear printed on them in a prescription bottle,  i really like the effect the bottle had on the light in this photo and the reflections created.  The other photo is for fear of the dark, originally i wanted to have the words fear shown as a shadow but it was almost imposable for me to photograph so instead i created this. 

This is one of the image i made to represent a fear of heights,  what i like most about it is the positioning of the hand in relation the the staircase and the way the viewers eye is directed to the centre of the staircase which looks never ending amplifying the appearance of height.  The other heights image i created consisted of the word fear written in bird poo, actually acrylic and glue, and placed on my windowsill, i photographed it with a view of below to give the intended appearance of  height.