Trypophobia is by far my proudest work in photography. I found this incredibly specific fear when talking to a friend and I later got her to interview for my phobia research. When starting this projects, I was going to have the holes on a flat board but as I spoke more to the interviewee, I realised that artificial holes do not effect her but natural ones do.

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I took this fact and developed an idea for a sculptural piece that combined nature with dystopia. I took a mannequin and painted it all white apart from on the arm segments which I accentuated with large black circles. This added to the hole look. After rolling white card to make tubes of various sizes and painting toilet roll tubes, I glued them to the side of the mannequin. I did not plan out where they would go and just let them sort of develop on their own. This technique made them seem more natural and linked back to thoughts of bodily growths or tumours (the root of the interviewee's fear).

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To exaggerate the depth of the holes, I painted the inside of each one black. The monochromatic pallet gave the final images a sort of bleak dystopian feel. It highlighted the phobia in a way that gives off a sense of unease. I did a variety of shots, from close up to full body, to show the various stages of the fear.