MASK SERIES
Masks are a cover for the life within, being decorative, ceremonial, realistic, abstract or combinations thereof. They can disguise, reveal, distort, emphasize, announce, antagonize, celebrate, instruct, or proselytize. A Bishop’s mitre, for example, is as much a mask as a New Guinea hunting mask.
The skull, to me, is also a mask, one that requires the life within to have left before revealing itself. It then becomes iconic, to be used as any other mask might be used, to express different purposes and positions.
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