Editorials

I worked with the neuroscience magazine Grey Matters Journal at Vassar College in order to create illustrations for an article on fear and exposure therapy -- Facing Our Fears: Extinguishing Conditioned Fears with Exposure Therapy by Alex Tansey.

 

To create the illustrations, I went back and forth with Alex and sometimes the editors and other artists to make a series of images representing fear and how it transforms our perceptions. Alex liked the idea of focusing on spiders, a common and visceral fear, so I drew many many spiders for the piece, both scary and not-so-scary. Since she also talked about the "Little Albert" experiments, we used that example to create a diagram explaining how conditioning influences our reactions.

 

I had so much fun with this, both getting feedback from the author, and making a bunch of really disgusting spiders, which was much more fun than it should have been.