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#Fear divider 2015

"No human being is illegal" was our starting point, we ended up with our own skinning ... A process that brought with it admissions, confrontation and self-knowledge, in very big ways, we were encouraged to look, so we looked. We looked around us, we looked outside, and what we saw was fear. It could be found quietly on every corner, became loud in large masses and faded away as soon as it dispersed, but did not go away, remained coldly behind, stuck somewhere, so that sooner or later you had it on your own foot again and were forced to deal with it. So that's what we did.

Initially directed outwards, we quickly grasped the served concept of anonymity, the white, foggy mass, in which it is not difficult to express oneself, to act big, in which one's own opinion is trumpeted, mimicked by an entire brass band, stupidly supported with zeal, it does not count because it does not stand for itself. We let ourselves be carried by this wave, the everyday valves of displeasure gave us drive. This theme stood grumpily against everything that eluded this mass, the confirmation and the existing system.

It was frightening how powerfully this mutual confirmation carried us away, intoxicated us. Initially directed outwards, the question now arose brutally: what are we afraid of, what am I afraid of? We went from everyday fears to increasingly uniform, general and very great fears. Fear of loss, failure, abandonment, being alone, condemnation. Here again we found something affirming, something unifying, but now it was different, more honest, less frustrating.

What we had admitted to ourselves in detail, we now found in our counterpart, we looked naked into a mirror, but what looked back was not shameful, mocking, even condemning, but understanding, knowing, even compassionate.

If we are already naked, who else should expose us?

We had shed our skins, recognized and named the inner, frighteningly large. And were unusually unafraid. What makes us shy away from facing our fears? What, if not the fear of exposure, vulnerability and vulnerability, makes us freeze up inside and cool down on the outside as soon as we are confronted with them? We let ourselves go, faced the unknown and realized clearly:

"I am afraid of strangers ..."

Because when I stand in front of you like this, you completely unknown to me, untitled, indefinable, I ask myself, will you reject me? Will you declare me to be something I am not? Will you recognize me? "I'm afraid to meet you!" And my fear holds me back. Makes me seek shelter in passivity and stagnate... Does it take a loud

SCREAM

for us to awaken from what binds us, conditions us? If I stand honestly before you, confess to you what constricts me, reach out to you, give you the mirror, will you accept it?

Will you tell me what your fear is?

Exchange, encounter, world view, compassion, admission and also weakness. Because this will not divide us, but unite us! What makes us insecure and leaves us quiet is not a reason to turn away, to encapsulate, it is not a shortcoming to be hidden, but an opportunity to reshape the masses - to form a society.

We have shed our skins, faced the confrontation, taken admissions and self-knowledge with us and now stand before each other, face to face, with shared fear ...

...and have lost our fear of each other.