Catalog

Anger is something very bright and saturated inside us. When we are angry, it is as if fire ignites within. If we do not live it through, it turns inward and we begin to burn from the inside.

Holding anger back is deeply unpleasant and heavy. It takes a great deal of strength and attention. By suppressing anger, we suppress our power as well. Anger helps us run, achieve, and survive. It helps us create. When we suppress anger, we drift toward gloom and a half-alive state.

The body’s reactions to anger: focus, sharper vision, the world slows down while flame rises within. Cheeks turn red; we look more alive and more beautiful.

I portrayed Anger as lava seeping through our armor of “mindful people don’t get angry.”

It grows out of anger. Where anger flares up, fear is more about freezing and cooling down.

When we feel fear, we want to do anything just not to feel it. What we fear is usually the unknown — what we cannot control, avoid, or foresee.

The body reads the unknown as death. Unwind any fear far enough and you arrive at the sense of something unknown that could kill you — even when, in the moment, it will not.

The image of death led me to use Baphomet as the prototype for Fear.

Fear is adrenaline. When we move through fear and it does not kill us, we feel more alive. Survival is victory.

Fear has many faces. Often it is a meta-emotion that appears when we are afraid to feel another emotion. The way out of fear usually goes through another reaction or emotion — fight, flight, or freeze. I reflected that by placing faceless figures in the background.