1) Does your mask bear any relationship to the images and/or issues below? Does it relate to pre-modern or post-modern traditions (see below).
My mask has a relationship with the theater aspect of the pre-modern tradition. It also relates to the festival of renewal. The mask is based on a traditional mask that appears at the Carnival of Venice, a celebration that let's the people relax and be a little silly. These masks are based upon the tradition of comedia dell'arte, an Italian form of theater in the renaissance world. Both of these traditions allow people to become those that they are not and allow them for once to be equal with those around them.
2) Does it bear any relationship to your real/ideal portrait? Or to the concept of True Self/False Self?
I think it does have some relationship to my real/ideal portrait. In the portrait of myself I was trying to show the contrast between loving myself and hating myself. In this picture I am attempting to show the contrast between having confidence, with the mask, and being afraid, without the mask. The mask is allowing me to become something I am not, or maybe it is allowing me to become what I truly am.
My mask has a relationship with the theater aspect of the pre-modern tradition. It also relates to the festival of renewal. The mask is based on a traditional mask that appears at the Carnival of Venice, a celebration that let's the people relax and be a little silly. These masks are based upon the tradition of comedia dell'arte, an Italian form of theater in the renaissance world. Both of these traditions allow people to become those that they are not and allow them for once to be equal with those around them.
2) Does it bear any relationship to your real/ideal portrait? Or to the concept of True Self/False Self?
I think it does have some relationship to my real/ideal portrait. In the portrait of myself I was trying to show the contrast between loving myself and hating myself. In this picture I am attempting to show the contrast between having confidence, with the mask, and being afraid, without the mask. The mask is allowing me to become something I am not, or maybe it is allowing me to become what I truly am.
This picture is simplistic and slightly... ominous. The mask is raw and almost resembles sloppy cottage-cheese on the outside. The liner around the eye sockets is a bit theatrical, as well as Megan's hair being in a net.
ReplyDeleteThe dark space to the left of the image is quite... engaging. You are first drawn to megan holding the mask, but then your eyes drift over to the left, "Behind the curtain." Perhaps there is a subliminal message here,... "Pay attention to the woman in-front of the curtain," to play with the words of the Wizard of Oz. But at the same time, she is ready to hide herself behind the mask, telling you to "Pay no attention to the woman behind the mask."