It was tempting to dive in and make a very detailed, complex mask. However, after seeing Frederick Steinberg’s work I saw that retaining a simplicity within the mask actually works better (allowing the complexity to be brought in in the posture and outfit of the person wearing the mask in addition to the setting). I wanted to make my mask about me and my experience of moving away from home and into a big City. I felt that this was a very relevant theme. I wanted to communicate feelings of fear, confusion, loneliness and perhaps curiosity in an immediate way. I initially toyed with different ways of communicating this. I considered conventionally using my mask as a disguise to conceal these emotions. I was going to become a terrifying monster. However, I decided to actually do the opposite and to reflect these emotions within the mask, with a pair of wide, beady almost alien like cut out eyes. I also gave the face a dramatic elongated nose and a confused toothy grin to give it a foreign tiki feel.
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