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Miya Turnbull- Visual Artist
WEARING MASKS (SELF-PORTRAITS)
Gallery 1: Favourites
Gallery 2: "In the Woods" photoshoot, December 2020
Gallery 3: Using masks to change how my body looks. Inspired by contortionism and placing masks on different parts of my body as a 'false face' to make my body appear 'supernatural' or 'creature-like'.
Gallery 4: Inside Out Masks and Double Masks. Each mask has more than one face.
Gallery 5: Woven Masks. Each mask is made by 'weaving' together 2 separate masks. Different variations of this mask exist. Many times this mask is not glued together and because it isn't 'fixed' in place, it would fall apart while I was wearing it, as can be seen here in the photos. A video played backwards, show the mask building itself up. See more video of different woven variations on my "Video" page under "Performing". Each strip can be a mask in itself.
Gallery 6: Compilation of some of my wearable masks.
Gallery 7: A new rice paper mask- strong enough to hold it's shape but thin enough it cracked like an eggshell, and try as I might, it can never be repaired.
Gallery 8: Various Origami Self-Portrait Masks. See more Origami work here
Gallery 9: New work- using my masks alongside "Skin Suits" expanding my work to be full-bodied and performative. See more work here.
Gallery 10: My very first "Photo Masks" (first one made in 1998). These masks are of a mix of friends/family and a doll, before I started exclusively making self-portraits.
Gallery 11: Nature and Masks, December 2021.
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