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Artist Insight:
On Fear As The Fire That Keeps Us Us
6/7/2025
I reimagine my experience of fear as a positive voice keeping me safe, like a sort of fire that protects me–one I can use to motivate myself to overcome its burn.A call to action–the thought that everything that matters to me could be taken away–reframes picking up my viola to practice a difficult passage seem like child’s play. I am scared because I care, not because I am weak. From this stance, fear becomes a sort of radical honesty, one that is deeply compassionate, too. Fear, in this experience, is like a mirror, showing me intense clarity of my unresolved self, and glimpses of who I am meant to become.