Hands Mask #Claudia


I decided to try capture two people instead of one with this mask. Now you can see 11 hands on the image, even though four of them are the same two hands but from two different perspectives.
I wanted the images to be confusing and make the viewer feel deceived and intrigued: whose are all these hands, why are they there, what are they trying to do, why are these people concealing behind them.
This mask is not only about identity but also about intimacy. The intimacy you share with someone when you hold hands, the memory in our skin and our muscles and how you can remember something by its texture, shape and size. I believe we can recognize our close friends and family by their hands (identity), not only by the look but if we would touch them and hold them with our eyes closed we would still recognize them.
Furthermore, the two people in these pictures are not holding hands and yet still you can see and feel an aura of intimacy between and around them, created by the frame of the picture (part of the body you can see on the left side of the picture), the facial expressions concealed by the hands, the shy light and the body positions.
About the composition of the first two pictures:
I believe it is a strong image that would become stronger by getting rid of some background elements (like the lamp, iron board etc.) To my understanding the hands have gained so much strength and personality that it has become a third “entity” or character or even person because of its strong character and visuals.
The last image is only to show how the mask looks on the other side back side of the head.
These were my firsts try outs, I am still working on my masks and all other assignments. Please take this into consideration. I will send more pictures throughout this week.  



Nets Mask # Claudia




Net mask
First idea was about making some sort of mask with food and fruits but this did not work out since the fruits were not gluing to each other and I tried different methods to stick them together but none of them work, that made me reflect and realize I shouldn’t use such a precious and valuable item as food. But I still wanted to use the nets in which mandarins and other fruits come. The food mask started as a comment on ourselves and society, “we are what we eat”, something that I relate to and that I am totally aware of but not everybody does.
These nets represent the plastic we are constantly wrapping our foods with and the plastic that we constantly eat without realizing. (Please if you would  like me to elaborate more let me know I can explain further, I do not know if I am supposed to give a big explanation or not.)
I experimented with the material and finally made a sheet with all the nets I had gathered by melting them together with the iron. I am still exploring the material since I have got more of this nets. I find it has similar qualities to fabrics and thus I tried to use it as a sort of garment that would also cover some part of the body and not only the mask, still being quite see through.

About the composition of the pictures I can say that is not the final results and I am still working on it.

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Question Mark Mask 








As I already said in class, I developed my own typeface for a question mark, from there a print for fabric and finally I made the fabric become real in the textile workshop. The images are of polyester fabric with the pattern printed by ink sublimation method. After looking at the fabric for a while and having encountered some production problems due to our new daily life I have decided to go back to the roots of this idea and pursue the image of just one big question mark. Again I will send you more pictures (or upload here) with my progres.. 

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