© 2025/05
Supervising lecturer:
Conceptional support:
Realization support:
* Hannes Soballa
Only a year ago, I learned why. The fear of human-made objects submerged in water is called submechanophobia. I learned about it on Reddit. The subreddit r/submechanophobia is a collection of images that trigger something in me—a feeling somewhere between trepidation, anxiety and fascination. These images show a variety of different submerged human-made objects: Wrecks, infrastructure like the legs of oil rigs, ship propellers, submarines as well as chains. Chains underwater freak me out. Chains of anchors, chains of machines, or chains of buoys. The images of these chains are the most intense ones, they have the strongest effect on me.
This Zine and the essay in it, try to find the threshholds for my fear of chains underwater.
90 × 170 mm | 16 pages | RISO Print with two colors | Fedrigoni Arena White Rough 120g/m² | limited edition of 75 prints