This was a complete deviation from most of what we did this semester. Our media would be clay, acrylic paint, and other mixed media we would like to incorporate on our mask.
The mask was something that really stumped me--with little imagination and creativity, I had to awaken something in me to start on the mask. At first I started by trying to get a lion's face as my mask, but as I worked the clay, it became apparent that it was getting more difficult as I moved towards it. But as I carved off some clay for the mouth, it started to look like something more... foreign, something not of this earth. So I decided to make it an alien.... of sorts. Once it was heated I noticed that I did not like the look of its teeth, of the mouth. An image popped in my head of an alien with its mouth hidden, but I had to figure out how I would hide the mouth. After spending some time looking around at some of my things, my eyes came across one of my favorite books: The Odyssey. So I decided that, since this alien creature made an odyssey to our planet, I decided to make him Ancient Greek-like, in that I gave him quite a beard to cover his mouth, hidden, and ready to eat any human that does not agree with him. I name him, Odysseo. Who says aliens cannot grow hair?
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