"Green Goddess" Papier-Mâché Masque

Chthonic goddess of the greening earth. Wrinkled, like tree bark, painted, an exotic glade. Process, the recycling of Nature, life emerging from death. An organic art. The mask's fronds as if growing out of the forest floor in the Spring. Papier-mache, mulch: paper. or leaves. The face as landscape; the face carrying the landscape with it. Flower colours framing her face; the iridescence of insects, sheen of dragonfly. Feathery wings, plumed serpent, vestiges of living vines. A vision of a Nature spirit, a Midsummer Night's Dream. Shaman of the forest. Tutelary guide in the rainforest. Jungle of the imagination. Then the Surreality of the sky-blue mask on the greening gold fields of her face: I offer you a masked mask.

Green Goddess Masque - Process

Above, the photos on creating the masque already posted at Rubies In Crystal collected into a slideshow. There may be more added depending on when and how photos from the Buddha Groove emerge from various cameras that were flashing that Halloween night. Below, some images of the process of painting the masque:

Green Goddess Masque - Paint Sequence

(Having tried a number of html possibilities, it does not seem that Gather will embed Picasa slideshows, which is how I would like you to view this post. The Masques Uploads and Paint Sequence links will take you to the photo site, where you can elect to watch the images as slideshows.)

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With thanks to Bill Brouard for a digital image that he created when I was making this mask that seemed synchronistically aligned with my vision and which in turn fed into the process of this mask.