Masks

A mask is normally a surface you hide behind. These are lattices, cut through until there is more absence than material, so you end up looking at the wearer through the thing meant to conceal them.

Laser-cut plywood, epoxy resin, gold mylar, jute string. An ovoid shell of irregular polygonal cells. A polyhedron flattened into projection and hung from a cord.

The cell wall structure of a diatom and the strut geometry of a geodesic shell resolve into the same form. A ceremonial mask built on that form is doing what masks have always done, declaring a group by the pattern it claims. Here the pattern it claims is one nobody invented.