During the fourth week of the final major project I continued to take a different turn from the idea of physically masking someones face and more towards the direction of how people mask and disguise feelings and thoughts.
Therefore I started researching "feelings", which is an emotional state or reaction, as well as the many different types of emotions we feel such as timidness, joy, shyness, frustration etc. Then I started looking at how these feelings are disguised through our speech and facial expressions. This idea stemmed from the common feeling that every human being feels at some point in their life where deep down they are upset about something but do not wish to bother anyone and so they disguise their feelings by acting happy and lying so no one is able to catch on.
From this idea of disguising someones feelings, I started to think about how people focus more on appearance rather than what is truly inside and so this sparked the thought of the human body. We are so focused on our outer appearance and "what is there in front of us" that we forget about is hidden within us. What most people forget is that the human body consists of the skeletal structure, nerves, organs and muscles. This idea intrigued me a lot as it was a different thought than what people usually think about on a daily basis.
While conducting this research I looked at areas such as the Mexican festival Dia de Muertos (Day of the Dead) because of their brightly coloured and eye catching skulls that they decorate to celebrate.
Through these two very different paths of research, they both got me looking at skulls, which then led me onto looking at the idea of death, as skulls are widely connected to the idea of death. Therefore I started looking at death masks, which are plastic carvings of a deceased person, and death photographs, which are photographs that were taken during the Victorian era of families with their deceased loved ones.
Through the idea of not seeing what is truly inside, I started experimenting with the idea of perception. Using two photographs that I cut into strips and stuck together and so when a person looks at the combined photographs they are able to see one or the other but with enough focus the person can then see both pictures simultaneously.
Therefore I started researching "feelings", which is an emotional state or reaction, as well as the many different types of emotions we feel such as timidness, joy, shyness, frustration etc. Then I started looking at how these feelings are disguised through our speech and facial expressions. This idea stemmed from the common feeling that every human being feels at some point in their life where deep down they are upset about something but do not wish to bother anyone and so they disguise their feelings by acting happy and lying so no one is able to catch on.
From this idea of disguising someones feelings, I started to think about how people focus more on appearance rather than what is truly inside and so this sparked the thought of the human body. We are so focused on our outer appearance and "what is there in front of us" that we forget about is hidden within us. What most people forget is that the human body consists of the skeletal structure, nerves, organs and muscles. This idea intrigued me a lot as it was a different thought than what people usually think about on a daily basis.
While conducting this research I looked at areas such as the Mexican festival Dia de Muertos (Day of the Dead) because of their brightly coloured and eye catching skulls that they decorate to celebrate.
Through these two very different paths of research, they both got me looking at skulls, which then led me onto looking at the idea of death, as skulls are widely connected to the idea of death. Therefore I started looking at death masks, which are plastic carvings of a deceased person, and death photographs, which are photographs that were taken during the Victorian era of families with their deceased loved ones.
Through the idea of not seeing what is truly inside, I started experimenting with the idea of perception. Using two photographs that I cut into strips and stuck together and so when a person looks at the combined photographs they are able to see one or the other but with enough focus the person can then see both pictures simultaneously.
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