Enochlophobia poem

I decided to write the poem myself, in English:

"I am anxious
I am suffocating
I am gradually drowning in this wave of people
Which seems to constantly haunt me
Am I paranoid or am I really suffering?
I am trapped in the midst of thousands of individuals
Each one going in an opposite direction
And yet each one of them seems to follow my shadow,
Trapping it,
Keeping it steady, immobile,
Capturing, stealing
All its strength.
I can perceive a very strong sensation of
Claustrophobia and enochlophobia.
I need to breathe
I need to able to yell at the world
That I need to be released
I deserve the right to gaze at the dawn
Over, on the other side of the city
I need a serene moment of interior peace
Where I am able to perceive a gentle breeze
Which blows and with deliberate silence,
Strokes my hair."

I was thinking that this could be the background of this project.

EnochlophobiA

In this new project I am exploring one of the many phobias of human beings: enochlophobia. Enochlophobia is the fear of crowds, of being surrounded by large groups of people, generating feelings of insecurity, anxiety, and in a way, 'suffocation' as well. Since my main theme is that of 'FEAR', I wanted to convey this 'phobia' not only by painting many figures from several different pictures I took this summer in Amsterdam, but as a background, I wanted to repeat that idea of enochlophobia through words. Basically, I wanted to find a song or a poem about it and translate it in Dutch and use it as a background, almost as if the words became 'haunting' and causing anxiety just as crowds do.

interesting page on deviantart

OH MY GOSH!!!!

so I was looking at some pages of artists on deviantart.com and opened a link to photography of people...and it was amazing! the artist seems to be inspired by darkness, loneliness, dark colours and japanese models.

so below is the link:

http://www.deviantart.com/print/549323/

Drawing in acryllics, black pen and string

I have started about a month ago a drawing for my own choice as I am planning to apply to art college, so I have been continuing it and even if I still ahve a lot of work to do, I am satisfied with how it is proceding. The drawing is based on a man in front of the Centre Pompidou who was performing a small puppet show to earn some money and I found the scene interesting so I took a picture of it and started drawing. The drawing is in black biro pen, ocre, yellow, brown, white and black acryllic paint and 5 pieces of string. Below is the actual picture and the way the drawing is proceeding:

SUMMER HOMEWORK

As part as the summer homework, I was also told to do some drawings from reality...and I am working on a portrait in biro pen of my sister, on rough paper... could I also do drawings on the architecture of a building or other interesting scenes, and not just the human figure? And since I am very confused of what to do for the EE as you may have noticed, I was probably thinking that the easiest thing was to compare to paintings or two artistic currents (for example, since I will be going in mid august in the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam, I could as well compare Flemish paintings of the 1600's_for examples Johannes Vermeer_ with Italian paintings of the same period)