ZOË VAN DIJK ILLUSTRATION

So honored to be invited to participate in Month of Fear this year! This is my submission for the prompt “Blind,” incorporating the hogweed flower, a highly poisonous plant whose sap can cause burns, scars and blindness.

“The halo effect is a type of immediate judgement discrepancy, or cognitive bias, where a person making an initial assessment of another person, place, or thing will assume ambiguous information based upon concrete information. A simplified example of the halo effect is when an individual noticing that the person in the photograph is attractive, well groomed, and properly attired, assumes, using a mental heuristic, that the person in the photograph is a good person based upon the rules of that individual’s social concept.“

Cut through the lies, cut through the liars. 

Done for the Month of Fear 2018 challenge, “Beauty.”