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Mask as "Story Container"
A mask is a 'container' for narrative energy. The energy itself is neutral. How you (the maker) employs this energy is up to you. You can use the mask in a stage performance that positively thrills your audience, or you can use it to rob a bank and thrill the audience in a negative sense. The mask doesn’t care. It just wants to be out and about doing thrilling things...
Mr or Ms Nobody
"[A neutral mask] is like the bottom of the sea, it's quiet, it's still. The Character Mask is like the waves; underneath is the Neutral Mask" Jacques Le Coq.
Knock! Knock! Who's there?
There's nobody home in the Neutral Mask. A neutral mask is Mister or Missy Nobody.
Your task - as maker or wearer - is to colour it in...until it's like a house with the colours of having been lived in.
Knock! Knock! Who's there?
There's nobody home in the Neutral Mask. A neutral mask is Mister or Missy Nobody.
Your task - as maker or wearer - is to colour it in...until it's like a house with the colours of having been lived in.
Ribbon Mask
What happens with the rest (of what is within us)?
The heart of making anything is trying to clear up something puzzling. So each creation begins with a learning question or creative question and each new mask is a product of trying to nail that question. But it is never quite resolved. The 'ribbon' is the riddle that flows through everything...
Q. What lies behind the Mask?
A. ...Another mask
Q. What lies behind the Mask?
A. ...Another mask
An Artsy Obsession
Masking is an artsy obsession that i have...
It's a combination of the aesthetic (masks as "visually interesting stories"); the romantic (the familar romantic mystique, that wears off after a deep dive into mask work, is replaced by mysticism); the collaboration (the art of coming into conversation with your creation); the technology (from hand methods to mechanised hotpressed paper enterprise); the intellect (another level of learning exists beyond the one you have just figured out); the drama (nothing beats masks for elevating the ordinary) and...new identity (how we can change our appearance and identity with adornment).
It's a combination of the aesthetic (masks as "visually interesting stories"); the romantic (the familar romantic mystique, that wears off after a deep dive into mask work, is replaced by mysticism); the collaboration (the art of coming into conversation with your creation); the technology (from hand methods to mechanised hotpressed paper enterprise); the intellect (another level of learning exists beyond the one you have just figured out); the drama (nothing beats masks for elevating the ordinary) and...new identity (how we can change our appearance and identity with adornment).