Masquerade

Assemblage/ceramic sculpture

Free Standing or Wall Hanging

19 x 17 x 6

Masks… We all wear them. They are a part of us, a part of who we are...

We choose to wear them, to cover up, to present differently, to manipulate, to change perceptions, to hide…

Being vulnerable, taking off the masks, is hard...

But liberating, it exposes, it opens you up, makes you vulnerable, makes you true, makes you honest.

With yourself, with everyone…

Masquerade explores the idea that we all hide behind masks, and the different motives we may have for doing so. Sometimes to hide something, and other times to become someone we would normally be too afraid to become, whether because of societal, familiar, or friend group pressures of what we think is "expected" of us.