The Crow mask is drying on the bathroom windowsill - I think that’s the last bit of work I need to do on it, but will be able to tell better when it’s dry.
The more I look at it, the more I feel it needs to be accessorised! Maybe a long crow feather “necklace” to go with it, so something like that? Somehow the “crow-ness” needs to be distributed more across the whole body, rather than just being a mask for the face.
I was looking at the (many, unpublished) photos of the Bark Mask, and in the full length shots the mask seems small and much less significant - completely dominated by the nude figure (which is why the Bark Mask photos I published were mainly head shots rather than full length shots).
Now obviously when you have a full size nude figure then the head is only about 1/7 or 1/8 of the figure, and the mask a fraction less than that, so it makes sense that it seems diminished in the importance of the figure.
So I need to find some way to include more of the body in the photos (because otherwise it’s just a photo of a mask, which isn’t what I’m after) without the mask being just one small detail in a larger photo.
I think I’ll try some distorted camera/body angles: head close to camera, body foreshortening away - that’s the obvious solution.
Sorry - just thinking out loud here!
