My Monster Masks
Liminality was being sequestered at home in self isolation. In between life as we knew it to be and the new normal that was about to begin. I manifested a universe that brought me out of my home and into a new world. A space where my collective memories and experience of my past merged. It birthed the creation of my masks. Each one has a story to tell and together I speak of them as my monsters.
These masks were made by hand out of everything I could get my hands on within the confines of four walls. I embodied each mask's character when I wore them on my face and shot a series of self portraits.
A Knight's Nostalgia Mask-
Reimagined for the 21st century and inspired by the ⠀illustrations of knights in storybooks from my childhood,
I explore with gender fluidity in this mask. The combination of heaviness and hardness of armour, with the lightness and airy movements of tassel, provides an interesting dichotomy between hard and soft.
Knights are often portrayed as masculine warrior soldiers.In this piece I strip that away and show a softer side to highlight more feminine attributes.
The black tassels on the mask are dip dyed in pink. In the dark past of LGBTQIA+ history, this colour has often been used to identify queer people such as the use of pink triangles on the attire of prisoners in concentration camps.
LIMINALITY (MAGAZINE VOL.3)
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