Mask making

Borrowing from an image.

This image carries the feeling and atmosphere that I am looking for in Weyward Sisters.

The innocent pose, lined up before a camera they could be anyone’s sister or mother. The masks serve to give the anonymity, the invisible person behind the mask. The placement and size of the eyes lends an uncanny, alien quality to the image.

I’m going to make a mask, well three to be precise. All three will be slightly different but of the same face.

Starting with a cling film wrap of my model, and then slowly building up with gummed paper. This was a fascinating process. I did feel very awkward wrapping someone in cling film. We discussed how this was feeling and how it represented the familiar horror film trope of violently killing someone.

But when the base mask was made I felt very unhappy that it was too real and lacked any sense of design that I had hoped for. There is something about the mask… the anonymity but the familiar face shape that I am looking to create.

The latest picture shows the second iteration of the mask using a simple base and building upon it. This means that I can create three separate masks that will be typologically the same but slightly different.

The wide open eyes are a deliberate attempt to unsettle the viewer.