Description: Overall, when I feel fear, my face freezes. It is like being paralyzed, because it takes a while to process the thing I am afraid of. It is as if you are so nervous and afraid that you don’t feel enough to move or react. You lose your voice; you lose strength. Overall, I look normal, I look okay, because all the feelings are within. I feel heavy within, as if my body drops. Nervous enough to believe you are feeling every nerve in your body. As if being pinched all around. However all of those nerves are within. Because on the outside, you’re paralyzed. Stuck, like the lines on a tv screen when frozen. As a result of the fear, there are too many emotions to tame, that all I can do is stop and freeze. This is like being your own victim. Silenced within your own skin, to simply feel every spike.
Final Thoughts: Overall, this project has been the most challenging yet. However, it is the difficult things that are worth the while. I learned how to force my eye to see emotion through movement, value and the design placement rather than a simple facial expression. Forcing myself to see this allows me to be able to show it to others too. It is so simple to just take a picture of myself angry and ask someone, “what am I feeling in this picture?” However in this project, I learned to express an emotion through design rather than the raw facial expression. Whether my audience can determine my mood simply through looking at my design, this can tell me if my design was successful or not. Overall, after many trial and errors, I developed the final design above to portray my perspective on the feeling: fear.
