April

media type="custom" key="8361132" When we first began this project I could not decide what I should do my mask on. I wanted to choose something that had a true personal connection to myself, and then it hit me, who or what means more to me than my family. My family means the world to me, and nothing as had a more personal connection in my life.

There are 8 people in my family, not including myself, and somehow I would have to incorporate each and every one of them, while still making it a single piece of art by linking them all together. I also wanted to make my mask more 3-D, and not just do something on the surface. After some brain storming I came up with the idea to divide the mask into 8 even sections and bring it all together by placing a "family tree" down the center of the face, and obviously the mask itself represents me. From there I had to come up with a pattern/design that was a good representation of each member of the family. At that point I also decided to divide the mask in half by gender, and then vertically by age. My biggest dilema was what the background for my mask would be. About a week or two before the project was due the idea just sort of popped into my head... a picture frame, simple but meaningful. I also want to put a picture of each person into the frame, but wasn't able to get them in before I had to post my mask.

I had a few worries about my mask to begin with, but the end product turned out. This may be something that I actually keep in my room after I get the pictures of my family in, its not to bulky and has personal meaning to me.