Art Exhibition
Event Title
Metathesiophobia
Document Type
Art Exhibition
Location
Indianapolis, IN
Subject Area
Art Exhibition
Start Date
11-4-2014 7:30 AM
End Date
11-4-2014 11:00 AM
Sponsor
Elizabeth Mix (Butler University)
Description
Fear is often crippling. It can lead to severe anxiety, an inability to function, a desire to hide away from the world, to avoid confrontation. It can also be liberating. It can encourage change, promote advancement, and even result in eye-opening realizations. It is how fear is dealt with, not the fear itself, that defines what effects it will have on the lives of those who experience fear.
Metathesiophobia is the fear of change. It is the fear of letting go of the past, good or bad, and accepting the unknown of the future. It is the fear of not knowing where change will lead. This fear manifests, although in different ways, in most people at some point in their lives. How that fear is received, and whether it promotes change or evokes a desire to hide, defines the fear itself.
I experience fear of change, especially during critical periods of adjustment and transformation. Fear evolves, is fluid, is ever changing. Sometimes the fear of change pushes me to reach toward the future, toward the change itself. It encourages me to confront my challenges head on, to finally overcome the fear. Other times the fear is crippling. It makes me desire the safety and comfort of the present and avoid the unknowing nature of change.
My work represents this self-exploration of metathesiophobia. It shows the conflicts between my desires to embrace the change, embrace the future, and my need to hold tightly to the comfort of the past. These pieces depict the ever-changing nature of fear itself. One moment it seems beatable, like a speck of dust about to be brushed off your shoulder, the next, that dust becomes a bolder, steadfastly holding the fear in its place.
Metathesiophobia
Indianapolis, IN
Fear is often crippling. It can lead to severe anxiety, an inability to function, a desire to hide away from the world, to avoid confrontation. It can also be liberating. It can encourage change, promote advancement, and even result in eye-opening realizations. It is how fear is dealt with, not the fear itself, that defines what effects it will have on the lives of those who experience fear.
Metathesiophobia is the fear of change. It is the fear of letting go of the past, good or bad, and accepting the unknown of the future. It is the fear of not knowing where change will lead. This fear manifests, although in different ways, in most people at some point in their lives. How that fear is received, and whether it promotes change or evokes a desire to hide, defines the fear itself.
I experience fear of change, especially during critical periods of adjustment and transformation. Fear evolves, is fluid, is ever changing. Sometimes the fear of change pushes me to reach toward the future, toward the change itself. It encourages me to confront my challenges head on, to finally overcome the fear. Other times the fear is crippling. It makes me desire the safety and comfort of the present and avoid the unknowing nature of change.
My work represents this self-exploration of metathesiophobia. It shows the conflicts between my desires to embrace the change, embrace the future, and my need to hold tightly to the comfort of the past. These pieces depict the ever-changing nature of fear itself. One moment it seems beatable, like a speck of dust about to be brushed off your shoulder, the next, that dust becomes a bolder, steadfastly holding the fear in its place.