Kate Conlan
Phobia alphabet book 2008

artist's book: inkjet prints on cotton, 26 pages, cotton cover, stitched binding
31.0 x 31.0 cm (closed)
Loreto Mandeville Hall, Toorak
 
I created an artwork that expressed the delicate and fragile nature of emotions experienced by people who suffer from a phobia, and to show that some phobias have a humorous side. I explored a range of irrational fears and created an alphabet book using hankies. I reduced the depth in each image, flattening the surface to minimise the background and any sense of movement, to focus the viewer on the emotions portrayed in each shot. I manipulated the images in Photoshop, and then heat-pressed them onto the hankies.