Jan

 

Mask 1.

The first mask, the one we talked most about, the curtain-like thing, is still at school. I have not had the chance to make more elaborate photos with it yet. In short, I wanted a waving surface in front of the face, in the shape of the line that goes from one ear, over the nose, to the other ear.

    

Mask 2.

For this mask I asked people to write down what they were confident about in themselves. I used these ‘confidences’  in a short movie, creating (or un-creating) a mask. I came up with this because I liked the idea of the ego as a sort of mask and asked myself what would be left when we are stripped of our ego. Because our positive self-image - the things we are confident about - is closely related to our ego, I thought this would be a less abstract representation of it. As more        and more of the stickers are ripped off, more of the ego dissolves and more of the real person is revealed.

If the films don'y show, here are links:

Final edit: https://drive.google.com/open?id=1VE1_hPnSAwYh_UAytgiRaXtH0vhZPUfY

(One of the) First edit: https://drive.google.com/open?id=1URUe0Wtrwcwv-DorROTaAr5sgFcAtl8K

Film 1: Final edit

Film 2: first edit

Mask 3.

For this mask I wanted to make an expressive mask in the sense that it changes the wearers apparent emotion. Whilst playing with folds and curves in fabric, I found that different viewer angles could maybe express different emotions.