A recent assignment in my Daily Draw group was: choose an object and draw that object each day for a week. I chose a mask that I bought last October in Florence, Italy, from a street vendor. It was cheap, probably made in China, but I liked it anyway. Here are some of those drawings, the last being the one drawing that meant the most to me. These were all done using the Sketch Club app for iPad, along with more than one photo editing app to crop, manipulate color, duplicate, flip and collage.
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 | I took the drawing at left and loaded it into the PS Express app (PhotoShop Express). There, I flipped it, so I had a copy of the mask looking right instead of left. I loaded both images into a photo collage app and put them nose to nose. Then, I imported the resulting image into Sketch Club (via Image Load) and worked some more. We go thru life wearing various masks, depending on the situation. We even work hard to keep our "social face" ready to meet the world. Our masks in place, the false selves interact, nose to nose, but with no deep knowledge of The Other. Occasionally, we see an exception to the rule: someone with a complete poker face, someone slack-faced with severe depression. Rarely, we encounter someone who allows the face to become genuine, transparent, alive. Such people can be: charismatic, mesmerizing, inspiring. With luck, we can trust someone we love with our authentic self -- and, in turn, that person can also give us that rare gift of transparency. Treasure that person with your whole heart. |
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