Choosing the poem I searched for something short, something deep, but not too corny. I came across the poem 'The risk' by Anaïs Nin by chance. To me it seemed very relevant for some periods in everyone's' life. It talks shortly in a metaphorical for about the necessity of changes, development and the harm of standing still, frozen by fear to move on. The poet associates the process of changes with the process of flower blossoming. Quite a corny metaphor, but, surprisingly, doesn't sound that bad in this poem. However, compared to flower, the similar process can be repeated multiple times by the same person in the same situation.
And then the day came,when the riskto remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.
Because the verse symbolizes a process, I decided to make an appropriate visualization: a GIF animation. The main feature of GIF format is that it is looped, that is relevant for the concept of constant development, blossoming as many time as you can. The GIF consists of two words 'blossom' and 'bud' that form an image of flower. The flower is hardly can be seen fully - the sign of permanent nature of the development process.
https://gph.is/2R49I2I
