For my semester project, I have been struggling with a concept that makes sense and portrays something meaningful and creates awareness. I have decided that I want to work with fears. In the book, "The Culture of Fear: Why Americans Are Afraid Of The Wrong Things" by Barry Glassner, he discusses our misconceptions of fears and where fears come from. Another resource I found was an article about fearing the right things. David Myers makes valid points of why we fear certain things over others. For instance, why would a smoker fear riding in a plane? Or why you would fear flying over riding a bike? Where did these fears come from and what makes them "fears"?
http://www.davidmyers.org/Brix?pageID=65
I want to, in some way, show how we fear things that are miniscule to bigger problems and known fatalities causers. Maybe a series of handouts or postcard type elements. I really want to make people think about the everyday things that are more dangerous and life-threatening than the ones that they would expect.
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