Demon Mask – Another fiery one. Clearly I’m in the wintery, christmas spirit. I wanted this demon to look somewhat alien, a little insect-like and also a bit like a knight’s helmet. Perhaps it is a fallen angel; the speed and heat of its descent charred its once fully golden and whole face like a meteor.
Today’s shoot notes: Don’t use packing tape to affix props to yourself. It sticks a lot more on the body than on the hands. Ow.
Tag: 3d art
You would think I’d be sick of winter by now (and I am) but I started this one back in November so it was time to finish. It is covered in transparent, glittering shards of glass (Diamond Dust by Stuart Semple) and is intensely sparkly, but so very hard to capture on a photo. The ‘ice’ is made with transparent vellum paper.
‘Alchemy’ – I was looking at ashes recently and their smooth blackness and delicate fragility reminded me of gold leaf, equally weightless and fine. Cinders are every bit as fine and beguiling as gold; soot like darkest velvet. Everything is equal as it is. You don’t need alchemy if you see the gold everywhere.
The mask and… chest mask/sculpture(?) are foam, vellum paper, gold ink and Stuart Semple’s vantablack-like paint which is great and super matte and smells like cherry (amusingly non-goth)
While taking the pic, I learned that hockey tape adheres to absolutely no surfaces other than hockey sticksThe contrast between the delicate, bright leafy gold and the near-void of the matte black is completely arresting. Your work is always surprising, always beautiful.
This mask- pretty much doubles as a kokoshnik- started off as the Sun but became more generally about fire (even though stars are plasma not fire; but who’s counting).
(note that I did not embroider the entirety of the wide ribbon thing; that would have shaved further months from my life. I used the trim from a gorgeous vintage saree)
Loki is the Philosopher King 