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Untold Fear

YIN WU

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Hi, I'm a Creative worker who works in both the Textile and Fashion fields. I have long focused on humanistic topics related to death, and my recent practice focuses on text, textile prints, and the fibre art of hand stitching.

Hi, I'm a Creative worker who works in both the Textile and Fashion fields. I have long focused o...

“UNTOLD FEAR” shows a coping mechanism “Acceptance” of death anxiety which combines Mindfulness and Text. 

The original inspiration for the project came from Becker's book 'The Denial of Death' and its Terror Management Theory, where I find the way to deal with death anxiety is to face and accept it.

In the years following my grandmother's sudden death, I often had panic attacks and dreamed of my friends and family dying before me, and also saw how people avoid talking about death and deny its existence in modern society. This fear spread through every corner of my life for a long time, and made me forget to be grateful for the time I had with my loved ones in the present, and also made me see my grandpa soaked in an air of fear every single day. The denial of death is present in both Eastern and Western cultures and brings back more fear, violence, and discrimination.

The project aims to temporarily free people from unnecessary panic and anxiety, and gather story inspiration from movies, conversations, and memories, hoping that art would act as a suitable coping mechanism, addressing the fears of the moment with positive projects that would make people feel the moment. 

Art is the negation of chronology in a way.

Final work

  • A poem that exposes the invisible fears of death in people's hearts, it is expressed and confronted in words, and blurred in words that become hazy an
  • A poem that exposes the deepest fears of death in people's hearts, it is expressed and confronted in words, and blurred in words that become hazy and
  • Screen printed and hand embroidered work, the text slowly changes colour partly with the warmth of my hand as I sew, and returns when I leave, all as
  • "If I tell you of my dream Perhaps you would forget it If I let you into my dream It will be your dream too"
  • "If I tell you of my dream Perhaps you would forget it If I let you into my dream It will be your dream too"
  • "If I tell you of my dream Perhaps you would forget it If I let you into my dream It will be your dream too"
  • Screen printed and hand embroidered work, the text slowly changes colour partly with the warmth of my hand as I sew, and returns when I leave, all as
  • Screen printed and hand embroidered work, the text slowly changes colour partly with the warmth of my hand as I sew, and returns when I leave, all as

Research and process

  • Screen printed and hand embroidered work, the text slowly changes colour partly with the warmth of my hand as I sew, and returns when I leave, all as

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Untold Fear

“UNTOLD FEAR” shows a coping mechanism “Acceptance” of death anxiety which combines Mindfulness and Text. The original inspiration for the project came from Becker's book 'The Denial of Death' and its Terror Management Theory, where I find the way to deal with deat...

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