This is the piece that actually started my entire interest in the concept of "Women's Roles and Self-Identity" as my theme. It was an assignment given in my Creativity class instructed by Lynn Jermal. She had us create self-portrait masks & told us to use whatever materials we desired to complete the piece. I really got into the assignment and it made me think a great deal as I was creating it.... what am I all about. Who am I anyway & what is my real purpose? Once I started the text background (with words that at that time had significance to me), I just let whatever happen happen & the result was this mask. The symbolic components are clearly visible.... the vale for feminine traits & marriage, the "nuk" or pacifier for motherhood & for my connection to my own girlhood, the spiral for continuation of life & reproduction, foil/ reflective eyes & dark hands... shadows in my past that never really leave.
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