• My very first ideas were comprised of masks designed to contour the face and accentuate certain parts, rather than cover the whole thing with a new image. My influences for these ideas came from science fiction design styles, such as Star Wars and mad max, but I didn't feel that they properly met the brief of a mask of myself, as they don't really represent an element of myself. I then chose to develop an idea involving my hair, as it is often the first feature people notice and point out and point at and touch and talk about when they meet me, and it can be annoying sometimes. So my ideas became about developing a design that used my hair but covered my face, as people often assume its the core of my personality when really it's just what happens to grow out of my head. Using that idea I developed the mask into a mushroom for comic effect but also to convey the idea of random growth being taken for something special when really mushrooms are just fungi and my hair is just hair.
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