When given the brief of making a mask of myself, the first thing I wanted to do was create a mind map to help identify the many ideas I had flowing around my mind! I found this more beneficial than if I were to jump right in with creating images without processing my initial thoughts and expanding upon them.
Elements I wanted to consider included the shape of the mask, the colour palette I would use and imagery I would feature - my favourite animal, exaggerated features, a blend of my Guide Dog and I or a representation of my visual impairment and what I can see, for example. With this handy template I was then able to sketch and explore some basic ideas I had from my own suggestions.
Here is the extent of my initial ideas and drawings. I developed and explored a whole range of ideas including the focus on my eyes - having a larger, more dominant eye, using one eye, many eyes and an eye-shaped mask - variations of my UV glasses to portray my vision, merging myself with a fox, blending elements of my Guide Dog Tami and I, using my nickname (Strawberry) as the foundation of a new set of ideas and a sensory drawing of myself.
After producing a good amount of sketches experimenting with basic shapes and marrying ideas from my mind map, I marked out some of the masks that I wanted to explore further in my media and materials experimentation.
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