I am a studio artist and illustrator who utilizes multi-media and collage to create subtle, introspective images through a more personal connection with the viewer through a tryptic of masks. My masks interact with the viewer directly by transforming themselves into what I call “the other”, or objects that, when worn, manifests various devious connotations that modern society considers eccentric. These masks have a visual link to Jeffery Gibson’s headdresses in that they use bright colors and repeating elements to allude to a legacy of culturally significant masks. Each of the three masks grows in abstraction with an emphasis on repetition in body parts and shapes. Research on worldly masks of history is the backbone of the concept for this body of work as I intend to address how contemporary visions of social anxieties and deviants tend to be steamed from past concepts of “the other” in various mask cultures. Real masks that have inspired by Japanese Noh Theater masks, Germanic Krampus festival masks, and Dominican Republic Carnival masks.
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