final piece

Drawing a lot of inspiration from Julio Gonazales, the idea of putting a mask on a podium or a rod to display it arose. As I thought more about my general idea, how I was going to integrate my inspiration from Gonzales' piece, and how to convey such emotion through my piece, I came up with the idea of creating a mask with some sort of facial expression. As a starting point, I created a mask with an expression of grief. Below is the step by step showing the mask in its different stages of completion. When I created my final piece this step by step is what I followed. 

For my final piece I came up with the idea of hiding emotion - putting on a 'persona' in order to appear outwardly different. In order to convey this I created three different full face masks - one happy, one sad or grief stricken - following the mock up - and one neutral. To me the piece represents our disguises or 'personas' the neutral mask represents the true us, and the happy and sad masks represent personas.

I then mounted the three masks on their own stands, representing

I gave the masks and their stands a bronze metallic hue, following my inspiration, Gonzales', who popularised using metals as a medium in sculpture making.