ABOUT THE SCULPTURE
Emotions are something that is common among all human beings still, somehow our experience of it is different from one another. In this kinetic sculpture I have tried to bring out my understand of emotions and tried to give it a form, a motion. This sculpture represents seven stages of fear. This rubegoldbergian machine has seven different motions linking to one another and each, each movement representing an interpretation on a stage of emotion
TREPIDATION
Anticipation of the possibility of danger.
Response: Hesitation, rumination
Anticipation of the possibility of danger.
Response: Hesitation, rumination
NERVOUSNESS
Uncertainty as to whether there is a danger.
Stuck in the loop of winding and unwinding your thoughts. circling inward and outward to fight emotion
Response : Hesitation, worry, rumination
ANXIETY
Fear of an anticipated or actual threat and uncertainty about one's ability to cope with it.
Response: Hesitation, freeze, withdrawal
Response: Hesitation, freeze, withdrawal
WORRY
Anticipation of the possibility of harm. Building up of anxiety with every moment into a more tangible feeling
Response: Hesitation, shivering, withdrawal
Response: Hesitation, shivering, withdrawal
DREAD
Anticipation of severe danger. A sinking feeling
Response: Withdrawal, hesitate, freeze, scream, yell
Response: Withdrawal, hesitate, freeze, scream, yell
DESPERATION
A response to inability to react to danger.
Response: Avoid, hesitate, freeze, scream, yell
Response: Avoid, hesitate, freeze, scream, yell
PANIC
An overwhelming feelings of anxiety and frantic agitation consistent with an animalistic fight-or-flight reaction.
Response: Avoid, hesitate, freeze, scream, yell
Response: Avoid, hesitate, freeze, scream, yell
