Fear Is Universal, 2026
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Video
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We tend to hoard the experience of terror, treating it as a complex, cognitive burden that only we are cursed enough to carry. Fear Is Universal strips away this anthropocentric vanity by forcefully injecting our anxiety into the veins of the botanical world.
By anthropomorphizing these forms, the work exposes the fragility we desperately try to conceal. We expect nature to offer a silent, stoic backdrop to our chaotic lives; instead, this series renders it complicit in our unease. The shaking does not humanize the plant so much as it universalizes the trauma, proving that the involuntary shudder is the only true common language.
The piece is displayed in a frame that mimics the defensive texture of bark and sealed behind a door bearing a text that reads: Fear Is Universal.
You have to physically open it to see the plants shaking in their constant loop. Sometimes, when you open the door the screen is dark, acting as a black mirror, swapping the trembling plant for your own reflection.
