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===Mask-making experiments===
===Mask-making experiments===
I started making masks when I began thinking about taking casts of some of the statues in Weimar. The more I looked at the statues, the more interested I became in the variety of copies and alternative representations of the same figures.
Traditions of Death Masks, and Life Masks, were a source of thinking and inspiration. Particularly the [http://biblioklept.org/2010/10/17/goethes-death-mask/ Death Mask of JW v Goethe]. I suppose my interest here, was in a blurred notion of something being present; a physical anchor of something vivid but also intangible. A trace or imprint.
I began making masks from statuettes I could buy in tourist shops, thinking of them as being somewhere between object and assosiation. Perhaps somewhere between life and death, or better, between materiality and immateriality.


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Mask-making using clay, plaster, cling film


== Installation Tests ==
== Installation Tests ==

Revision as of 20:03, 21 February 2013

Mask-making experiments

I started making masks when I began thinking about taking casts of some of the statues in Weimar. The more I looked at the statues, the more interested I became in the variety of copies and alternative representations of the same figures.

Traditions of Death Masks, and Life Masks, were a source of thinking and inspiration. Particularly the Death Mask of JW v Goethe. I suppose my interest here, was in a blurred notion of something being present; a physical anchor of something vivid but also intangible. A trace or imprint.

I began making masks from statuettes I could buy in tourist shops, thinking of them as being somewhere between object and assosiation. Perhaps somewhere between life and death, or better, between materiality and immateriality.

CIMG4317small.JPG CIMG4321small.JPG Maskmaking.JPG

Mask-making using clay, plaster, cling film

Installation Tests

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