For this image, I
made a cast of the back of my head and neck and sculpted another face
that fits tightly on the back of my skull. When I started, I was
thinking of the masks that some workers wear on the back of their heads
while working in forests infested with man-eating tigers.
(Apparently, tigers prefer to attack people who are not looking at them,
even metaphorically.)
I originally saw this mask as a protective social device- ie, no one
could sneak up on me at a party, but the final image has become more
about a competition or balance between personalities- perhaps between a
constructed self, and an actual self, which is only reflected anyway. |