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| Face Your Fear (detail) |
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| Face Your Fear |
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| Face Your Fear - installation view, Chaz Howkins, 2017, installation |
I created this installation in response to a week spend in Venice. As someone with a phobia of pigeons, I spent most of the week in distress, having to dodge crowds of pigeons in the streets and hide in toilets when they wandered into cafes. I chose to exaggerate the scale of my pigeon sculpture to make it more fearsome, so that the audience gets an idea of how pigeons make me feel. There is a painting of Venice hidden behind the pigeon to represent how pigeons got in the way of fully enjoying my time spent there.
