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.
Mask-making using clay, plaster, cling film
Installation Tests
