Have you had the experience of a life mask? Tonight is my first. Secretly I hope that Char Downs has forgotten her request to cast my life mask, because that was almost 30 days ago. She has not. I don't admit to her that I'm claustrophobic, that I'd prefer passing on this opportunity, and I am glad.
This is cool! Char is adept with the plaster strips (remember plaster body casts?), and is prepared with swim cap, vaseline, and towels for comfort and practicality. The casting feels like a spa treatment, or what I imagine a spa treatment to be, and is over within minutes. The Pinecone Studio artist will use the multitude of her castings - friends, family, fellow artists - in a 2015 exhibit. In the meantime, Halloween night is the premier of the second of Char's Phantasmagoria happenings: in the dark, by gallery-goers in masks with flashlights. I will miss it, but I do have a piece in the show and have had a sneak preview.
Earlier in the day, over lunch at Shandies followed by coffee and a cookie at Etcetera, Rosemarie Steele and I conduct an informal exit interview. She comments that I am one of the most low-maintenance artists-in-residence, and that I have provided great marketing of Paducah and the Paducah Arts Alliance via my blog. It's a fair trade for a month's experience in this rivertown, creating and exhibiting art, and interacting with the LowerTown artists. Thank you for the invitation, PAA.
As I leave: should you have the chance for a life mask casting, don't hesitate. It's not claustrophobic after all
This is cool! Char is adept with the plaster strips (remember plaster body casts?), and is prepared with swim cap, vaseline, and towels for comfort and practicality. The casting feels like a spa treatment, or what I imagine a spa treatment to be, and is over within minutes. The Pinecone Studio artist will use the multitude of her castings - friends, family, fellow artists - in a 2015 exhibit. In the meantime, Halloween night is the premier of the second of Char's Phantasmagoria happenings: in the dark, by gallery-goers in masks with flashlights. I will miss it, but I do have a piece in the show and have had a sneak preview.
Earlier in the day, over lunch at Shandies followed by coffee and a cookie at Etcetera, Rosemarie Steele and I conduct an informal exit interview. She comments that I am one of the most low-maintenance artists-in-residence, and that I have provided great marketing of Paducah and the Paducah Arts Alliance via my blog. It's a fair trade for a month's experience in this rivertown, creating and exhibiting art, and interacting with the LowerTown artists. Thank you for the invitation, PAA.
As I leave: should you have the chance for a life mask casting, don't hesitate. It's not claustrophobic after all