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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 [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. | |||
[[File:CIMG4317small.JPG]] [[File:CIMG4321small.JPG]] [[File:Maskmaking.JPG]] [[File:CIMG4337small.JPG]] | |||
Mask-making using clay, plaster, cling film | |||
==Masks== | |||
[[File:GoetheMask1.jpg]] [[File:GoetheMask2.jpg]] [[File:GoetheMask4.jpg]] [[File:GoetheMask5.jpg]] [[File:GoetheMask3.jpg]] [[File:GoetheMask6.jpg]] | [[File:GoetheMask1.jpg]] [[File:GoetheMask2.jpg]] [[File:GoetheMask4.jpg]] [[File:GoetheMask5.jpg]] [[File:GoetheMask3.jpg]] [[File:GoetheMask6.jpg]] | ||
[[File:GoetheMask.jpg]] | |||
==Installation Tests== | |||
[[File:Documentary Image1.jpg]] [[File:Documentary Image.jpg]] [[File:IMG00061-20121210-1351small.jpg]] | |||
Marienstraße 2; On a white wall, and In an empty room | |||
[[File:CIMG4376small.JPG]] [[File:CIMG4382small.JPG]] | |||
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. | |||
[[File:Installation1.JPG]] [[File:Installation2.JPG]] | |||
Test in the part of the Bauhaus University library | |||
[http://www.uni-weimar.de/medien/wiki/GMU:Provokative_Architektur/Jeremy_Booth '''<< back to workbook'''] | |||
Latest revision as of 08:29, 22 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.
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