Symbol Of A Mask Analysis

The three fears my mask represents are the fear of smallness/unimportance, fear of nothingness, and fear of the unknown. Each of these fears are both everyday fears and existential fears. The first fear, fear of smallness or unimportance, is represented by space. This represents my existential fear of how small I am in comparison to everything that exists - all that we know about, and all that we don’t know about. In everyday terms, I am afraid of tall buildings or trees because of how large they are in comparison to me. Next is the fear of nothingness, which I represented with the missing piece of my mask. Things like boredom or awkward pauses in conversation - moments when nothing is happening - are scary to me in the everyday sense. However,

This is why I chose to represent the unknown with a dark forest because you don’t know what is inside. What most people don’t think about (or try not to think about) is that the unknown is everywhere around us. We don’t know what’s going to happen in the future; we don’t even know what’s going to happen in the next ten minutes. As much as we do research and make predictions, we don’t know where we’re going to even where we’re from, and to me that’s one of the scariest things of all. These are not fears that are particularly embarrassing or hard to admit, however the heaviness of them does not make for enjoyable conversation, so I don’t involve them in regular conversations. Overall, I actually think that my mask helps me because it keeps me from focusing on these fears and the questions I have about them, and I’m able to spend my time thinking about more practical subjects. In the future, it would be nice if I could come to terms with not knowing anything or how small I am in the universe because no matter how much I ignore these fears, they are still there, almost looming over