Flower Mask
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Title
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Flower Mask
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Description
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I am a freshman with an intended major of exercise physiology. I want to be a physical therapist after I finish school. Growing up I was more involved with the arts than I have been recently. I grew up playing in the orchestra and that led me to learning about renaissance era arts. My teacher in middle school put a huge emphasis on knowing the background of the pieces and composers of the music we would play, and we would have a couple art and literature history lessons in between practice days.
This mask was created as an assignment for Susan Ludeke's ART 1910: Art Appreciation course. The Getty Museum's art challenge was created as a way for people to engage during the pandemic. Making this mask, I didn’t have any specific influence in mind. I probably have subconscious inspiration from past pieces of art, but I can’t place where I may have gotten the idea from. I bought some fake flowers and hot glued them to an old, slightly small, mask that no one in my family wore anymore, so I would not waste a potentially useful mask. The flowers I bought look very similar to the flowers planted outside my grandma’s house, and I bought them because they gave me a sense of familiarity and comfort, which I'm sure a lot of us could use throughout this pandemic.
I most likely won’t wear this mask out purely because of practicality reasons. It’s a little itchy because the flowers poke over the edge, but if I wanted to wear it I could. I did not poke any holes in it and it's a relatively thick mask so the hot glue would not have damaged it. The reason I chose to decorate my mask the way I did is because, not only do the flowers trigger a specific memory, but throughout this pandemic I have been spending a lot more time outdoors. I have been biking, hiking, and overall just spending more time in nature.
I took my photo outside just to reinforce the idea of nature and spending time outside. I chose not to smile under my mask because it shows that even though I found a way to cope, I wasn't happy with the world we have been living in. I also chose to take it in front of an evergreen tree because the other trees have lost their leaves and it makes the world look more dull, so the evergreen tree represents life when it's surrounded by emptiness.
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Coverage
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North Carolina
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Creator
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Anonymous
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Date
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2021-02-02
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