masktask

What do I want to hide from the world?
This is probably one of the easiest questions I've ever been asked. I would LOVE to wear a full face masks hiding all of my scars that I carved into my face with my own fingernails, because when I get stressed I pick on my face. It is some kind of obsessive behavior you've probably seen other people do or do it yourself. It's pretty common but mine got to a level that I tear my skin apart so bad sometimes that it takes weeks to recover. The first layer of skin on my face has been so deformed that every time I look in the mirror I think to myself there's no turning back from this point.
But the thing is. There always is a turning back. My skin always gets better around summer when it's sunny and less stressful and starts getting worse around September. This cycle literally shapes my life as it rules over my self esteem and I let it define my sense of self worth. Although I know it's not a healthy self value system, I can't stop myself and that is the thing I want to hide away from the eyes of others. Not my bad skin but my inability to let go and just be a human on earth.

One of my initial ideas was creating a 3d tessellation origami mask which didn't turn out as nice as the visuals online.

The Skin I Live In was the first thing that popped up in my movie trivia riddled brain. I wanted to create a mask that resembled this remarkable take on surgical/mental/physical masks, designed by Paco Delgado.

After watching American Psycho for Yin Yin's assignment and having watched The Wicker Man recently, I wanted to create not only a mask but a video essay. I wanted to make the connection I made between the physically forced masks with the ones that a person can create themselves.

Frank's mask was made to cover his own image and present the world a new one, one that's not as afraid as he is.

In The Wicker Man the masks literally symbolized every role in a community, from the King to the Fool. Designation of these roles is the main starting point of every character throughout the movie. The mysteries get solved as we watch every character define their roles by their weird and natural kinds of self expression.

I decided to make a clear mask from tape and make it resemble a little like Almodovars version. It... didn't quite work and still haunts me. Not a waking hour passes by without it staring.

Wellp, then I made another mask of clay because I thought it can be a comment on the creation theory or whatever and it fell apart mostly. But nevertheless I documented my process and my final results.