DeKALB | What looks like a red web outside the Holmes Student Center is actually transfer art major Tia Tucker’s midterm project for her fibers and installation course called “the social web.”

Tucker, who worked on the project with her friend Nick, said she wants the display to engage people who walk in and out of the center by writing their fears and dreams on pieces of cloth and tying it onto the strands of the web.

The goal of the assignment was to find a location and expand the meaning behind it.

“We really wanted to do something for the [Holmes] Student Center because we wanted to connect with students, the community and that area,” Tucker said.

The piece took two weeks to set up and took three to four hours a day to make.

“We wanted to make a web so there were all these connections between all [of] the strings in the middle to represent the connection of the students,” Tucker said.

The project draws on Japanese culture because the red color represents the fear of the future and the registering of fate. The white color of the cloth represents the hope for the future.

Anyone can write down a fear or hope they might have. Tucker thinks at least 40 people have visited the site.

“We wanted to maybe touch on the fear of getting a job that you don’t want, because you’re going here to make sure you don’t end up getting that job,” Tucker said. “And we wanted to touch on hope as well. Hope for the future. The reason you’re coming here is because you hope to have a better future.”

Tucker said she has seen some really deep, personal things written. The more intimate things written get knotted together so people can’t read them, for a more personal experience. She said she has read some about succeeding in the future and fears of being a failure to parents.

Freshman, major undecided, Maddie Geniesse said she wrote her fear of the losing people in her life.

“[Losing someone that I love] would probably be my biggest fear,” Geniesse said. “It would kill me.”

The project will be up until Friday.