Brian Rea is an illustrator who was interviewed by Emma Tucker at Creative Review on November 18, 2020 in an article titled How I Got Here: Brian Rea:
“I had this crazy sense of a white noise of anxiety in my life, where I was feeling anxious and couldn’t quite figure it out. I started keeping a list of all the things that were making me anxious and nervous, like a mind-mapping of feelings and emotions. That list ended up becoming a reference point for a lot of other work. I did a mural based on it in Barcelona, and I’ve gone on to do paintings based on happiness, love, beauty and anger, and all these other topics. For me it’s a different way of telling a story.”
That mural is 11.5 feet high and 23 feet wide. It is described by Alissa Walker in another article at Fast Company on March 1, 2010 titled Fear Not These Murals: Brian Rea’s Art Is What Keeps Him Up at Night. Just the first image of a section from it shows us the following 38 fears:
“Atlantis, bad trips, banged head, bigfoot, bird droppings, carnivals, child abduction, chupacabra, contaminated food, crop circles, dreams, drive by shooting, earthquake, eye poke, fall through ice, falling objects from very tall buildings, falling scaffold, falling tree, false imprisonment, farm runoff, fights, frostbite, hit by bus, hit by pitch, humidity, hurricane, mad cow disease, moose attack, night visitors, prophecies, spilled ink, striking out, sucker punch, swamps, tampered food, tele-marketers, volcano, water balloon.”
A second mural just is about UFOs.
Darwin’s image of terror from his book on The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals was colorized from one found at Wikimedia Commons.
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