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== Mask-making experiments ==
==Mask-making experiments==


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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.


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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.


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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


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==Masks==


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==Installation Tests==


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Marienstraße 2; On a white wall, and In an empty room


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Exhibition test between two spaces in the Adieu Marie group exhibition. I was nterested in showing a similar-sized representation of an elephant in another part of one of the two spaces; invoking a play on the scale of the mask, but also refering to the literary giant. I eventually decided the exhibition was not suitable for this element of the artwork.
 
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Test in the part of the Bauhaus University library
 
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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

Masks

           

 

Installation Tests

     

Marienstraße 2; On a white wall, and In an empty room

   

Exhibition test between two spaces in the Adieu Marie group exhibition. I was nterested in showing a similar-sized representation of an elephant in another part of one of the two spaces; invoking a play on the scale of the mask, but also refering to the literary giant. I eventually decided the exhibition was not suitable for this element of the artwork.

   

Test in the part of the Bauhaus University library

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