Melting Mask

Item

Title

Melting Mask

Description

I am a sophomore this year and I am studying communications with a concentration in Public Relations and a minor in sports studies. One of my favorite forms of art is writing and it has always been a passion of mine. Especially when I can turn that writing into some sort of presentation because when I am passionate about a subject I am a talker and innovator.
My mask was sort of out of the ordinary and was used only out of snow and the right lighting for my photography. I was originally was going to do the recreating art pieces but over spring break it snowed and inspiration stuck. I just shoved my face in snow not really expecting much out of it. It just did it because the cold always makes me feel relaxed and when I went down in the snow and popped up I had a face or a mask if you will, sitting right in front of me and it perfectly portrayed my experience with the pandemic.
Of course, I can never wear this mask in public because it did melt but I think it shows the true beauty of the experience I had with COVID-19. No matter how stressed I was and as you can see it is almost like I’m screaming into the snow by how much anxiety and stress the pandemic gave me and my family. The snow melting away (my “mask”) melting away really shows how my anxiety and stress can melt away as well.
I believe the photo is also aesthetically pleasing the snow glistening and how beautiful the snow is with such strong emotion placed in the snow shows me that everything has a silver lining. I believe that this mask really shows how stressed and how we all wanted to let a scream out or two during the pandemic and even though we dealt with so much stress and anxiety it showed how there is beautiful underlying detail in all of this. As we are all college students it was good to maybe spend some extra time with my parents before I move away forever. It also shows just like snow, our feelings melt away.
This was created as an assignment for Susan Ludeke's ART 1910: Art Appreciation course.

Creator

Anonymous

Format

Image/Imagen

Date

2022-03-14

Coverage

Greenville, North Carolina

Item sets

Documenting COVID-19 in Eastern North Carolina

Media

Image (8).jpeg

This item was submitted on April 21, 2022 by [anonymous user] using the form “Contribute a Digital Item/Done un Artículo/Producto Digital” on the site “Documenting COVID-19 in Eastern North Carolina”: http://collections.ecu.edu/os/s/ecucovid19