I am interested in people and their stories that they tell to make their world make sense. This piece is about that story and the way that it changes over time. I picked excerpts from my own journal, each from a different point in my life. Over these I placed paper masks or faces in rice paper, translucent so that the words underneath are not completely obscured. Each face is a unique, and fragile like the illusion that we have a distinct, unchangeable identity throughout our lives instead of a series of personae worn in different times and places.
I really liked the process of this piece - it's something I made up as I went along, which is always a fun way of doing things. I created the base for the masks using plasticine covered in plastic wrap. It allowed me to create a number of completely individual faces - although I could have made them all the same if I'd so chosen - and is a flexible enough technique that I could create almost anything using it. And I love the rice paper in itself. It's such a beautiful material.
