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I am working on a series of photographic masks and building a lexicon of faces, catalogued by likeness. The masks are created with film and light in the darkroom, creating a light mask to produce a single image. The resulting image, enhancing similarities and condensing facial features, could be seen as a kind of archetypal face, made of many to encapsulate the whole. Above all else most people have the basics, two eyes plus a nose and a mouth, but more than that we share our humanity and that is what can be read in our faces. In creating a kind of 'super' face I am looking for an inherent essence, that which can be found as common between peoples. Individual traces will not be hidden entirely, some faces will be more prevalent than others, partly due to the method by which I am creating the masks, and partly due to some people having more outstanding features. This resilience of individuality is also a very human trait, something more that is commonly shared. This is a work in progress. |
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