Past Work - Masks
I want to express my frustration about not being able to talk about something; I can't explain this any further because I can't talk about it!
Anyhow, as this is personal I've decided to start with the moulds of my face that I made 2 or 3 years ago. At the time, I used the moulds to make some terracotta and glass faces and then parked things until I had some further ideas.
I'm now seeing whether the moulds could be a starting point for expressing my frustration. So I'll start my usual photo journal:
 | 27th October: I made these 3 wax masks by dribbling molten wax into a concave Gelfex mould of my face. I discovered that you could get a sort of onion-skin, multi-layer effect by swilling the molten wax around mould, letting it solidify, deliberately cracking it by bending the mould, and then repeating it all over again. | |||
 | I think I prefer the first mask I created (left), which had less cycles of swirling and cracking. | |||
 | I also tried dripping wax over the reciprocal, convex Gelflex mould. So this mask is concave, even though it may not look like it in this photo. | |||