What is Jellophobia?
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Fear of gelatin. The concept of jellophobia synthesizes an instinctual feeling and offers a potential solution to a conundrum:
Faces and hands are flattened into irregular gelatin bodies.
The eyes are closed and the hands are either opened or tightly closed.
Too many times we cannot fully understand the exact causes and mechanisms of a chronic disease.
Fear, solitude, hopelessness.
The images are offering a solution: acceptance.
Our "solution" is meant to be controversial.
On one hand it seems to encourage acceptance of beauty, hair, face, skin, air, light, illness.
On the other hand it implies cowardice; giving up the fight.
There is peace with oneself, with one's faith.
There is beauty in the end of struggle.
All that is left of their humanity is the physical beauty.
The mind and the soul are taken over by the unfathomable, transparent entity.
The element of chronic illness also comes into play.
