SAW Friday Night Drawing session, hosted by Beth Trembly.
The challenge was to draw a four panel comic that dealt with your fear.
- The first panel should be a drawing of something you’ve always been afraid of.
- Next draw you taking on the mask of the thing you fear.
- Then draw yourself using that fear.
- Then so what? What happens as a consequence of being the thing you fear?
I didn’t follow this idea very strictly. This is what I ended up with:
- With police as a metaphor, I drew a fear of cruelty found in an nameless institution.
- Then you put on the mask of cruelty.
- Then causing harm with impunity.
- Then the result of wearing that mask is simple continuation of the fear, but with you as the cause.
It seems to me that taking on a role of fear doesn’t really end in less fear, or the more common wish of a therapeutic and cathartic understanding; but instead leads to unthoughtful propagation.