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Artist Statement:

Cleithrophobia is the fear of being stuck. It is not claustrophobia which is the fear ofbeing trapped. I wanted to be able to show this difference in my art to try to explain that they are different. The image is from the perspective of a person who is trapped in a large room. It is not a small and confined space but they are stuck there. I used layered tape for the image and shined light through the back to show the picture.

I started by putting a layer of tape across the entire piece of glass. I used a light board I had for diamond dot paintings to help me see what I'm doing. I made a rough sketch over the tape and just started layering. It took a very long time to get the flat areas done because I wanted to make sure the tape was exact and not overlapping. I used an exacto knife to cut around what i needed to.