Thursday, October 1, 2009 - Saturday, October 31, 2009
Mask making fascinates me. I use plaster and cheese cloth to make the molds of my masks. Then, I draw the designs and paint them with acrylics. I apply gloss over the acrylics. The size of my masks is that of the human face. My masks are characters; the face patterns and colors express their emotions. Mask making is such a long historical tradition across so many cultures. Ancient Greek theater masks of the smiling/laughing and the crying faces (comedy/tragedy), voodoo masks, Mexican masks -beloved kachinas/la magia de la sonrisa y de juego, African masks, Commedia Dell’ Arte masks, Chinese theater masks and so many others celebrate humans in all their complexity, celestial beings, fertility, mythology, nature. It is visual theater! It is about life!
