Karolina Mask


I shot this mask in a botanical garden, since it gave me an archaic prehistorical feeling. While shooting, I more and more got the feeling that the story I wanted to tell was of me observing, exploring and making snapshots of an animal in the wildlife.












I like the composition of the picture but also the fact that it has movement. It looks like the mysterious animal incidentally got caught on my camera. The flash reinforces that effect. The textures of the background and my mask contrast well. I also find it humorous how the 'ears' of the mask create a new face shape by lifting up the hair.








 










In these pictures I like the glass and plants interacting with my masks. The last image has again a similar snapshot look of somebody hiding.






  
This picture has a purisitc feel due to skin, stone and plastic. I like how minimalist it is drawing attention to the mask. The background sucks you in. In my point of view it tells a similar story of me observing, exploring and finding this ‘prehistoric animal’.





































I chose this picture, because I really liked the perspective. It transforms the model’s face shape while still disclosing details such as the mouth. But by isolating the details and showing them through a ‘tunnel’ the viewer gets more estranged and alienated from the face. The face distorts, transforms and does not look like a ‘familiar’ face anymore.










Here I experimented how a natural environment interacts with the aesthetics of plastic. I liked the different textural qualities of mask and environment:  the bottle is reflective, smooth and see through while the plant is more opaque and rough. I also liked how the colors of the seemingly very different objects matched.















This picture is less about my object being visible than about the picture itself. I like how the 
steam within the mask relates to the blurry background.









































 

 

The glass masks are a joint project by Abe and me. We wanted to play with light reflections and how a transparent mask can still distort when put in the right context. What I like about the series is how chance and changes in sun leave a different end result. Sometimes the whole face is hidden, sometimes half of it. Depending on the context, the mask directly relates to its environment by reflecting it.

 

 





 

























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