“Sycamore Frost” was on display until recently in Greek’s Pizzeria at 600 Wabash Ave. in Terre Haute, Indiana.
It received First Place in the 2019 “Shades of Winter” TREES Inc. photography contest and later First Place in an Associate Members Show in the Covered Bridge Art Association gallery in Rockville, Indiana.
TREES 2018-19 First Place award for “Sycamore Frost”TREES 2019 winners Terre Haute Tribune-Star ‘BASH Entertainment GuideCBAA Associate Members Show-Sycamore Frost
Patrons can now view my “Sycamore Freeze” until I switch it out for “Sycamore Snowcap” in late-January.”
“Sycamore Freeze” was awarded an Honorable Mention in the same TREES Inc. contest and later an Honorable Mention in a Midwest Photography Contest in Link Art Gallery at Paris, Illinois.
Sheila Ter Meer with Sycamore Freeze
“Sycamore Snowcap” received Second Place honors in the same Midwest Photography Contest in Link Art Gallery.
Sheila Ter Meer with Sycamore Snowcap
Thank you owner Justin Fox! for giving area artists an opportunity to share their artwork with the community!
Excited to share that my artwork, “Approaching Fear Head-On,” received 3rd Place in the 14th Annual Juried Exhibition hosted Aug. 5 through 31 by River City Art Association in First Financial Bank in downtown Terre Haute, Indiana.
This piece also will be featured in the exhibition’s Winners Show throughout September in First Financial’s Springhill branch.
Each high gloss 8 by 10 image is printed on aluminum and float mounted as a triptych on brushed aluminum background.
Initially the lines of the bridge over the Ohio River from Louisville, Kentucky, into Indiana, grabbed my attention for a future photography show, but then I did what I like to do best and that’s to turn one of my traditional photographs into photography-based abstract art.
After contorting the lines using a few photo editing techniques the road and bridge in the second image took on scary movement which then sparked the third image of the gloom and doom, fear and anxiety experienced by someone with the fear of crossing a bridge, and maybe intensified by the fear of heights and/or fear of water.
Myself, I’m OK with bridges, but I do not like heights or swimming in deep water (thalassophobia, defined on Wikipedia as the persistent fear of vast, deep, and often dark bodies of water that feel dangerous).
I looked up the phobia for the fear of crossing a bridge and up popped gephyrophobia, but as represented in my triptych, I preferred my title as a more courageous and positive outcome.
According to Wikipedia: Gephyrophobia is the anxiety disorder or specific phobia characterized by the fear of bridges and tunnels. As a result, sufferers of gephyrophobia may avoid routes that will take them over bridges, or if they are a passenger, will act very apprehensively when passing over a bridge. The term gephyrophobia comes from the Greek γέφυρα (gephura), meaning “bridge”, and φόβος (phobos), meaning “fear”.
Some possible manifestations of gephyrophobia may be fear of driving off the bridge, fear of a gust of wind blowing one off the bridge, or fear that the bridge will collapse when crossing it (e.g., fear that the bridge lacks structural integrity). The fear overlaps with acrophobia (the fear of heights) as gephyrophobia tends to be exacerbated in taller bridges as compared to those closer to the water or ground beneath.
Sheila T Illustrated© 
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