As I continue to grow and learn, about myself and the world around me, I find my work falling into a main theme. It is a theme of identity. As a society, and naturally as human beings we wear many masks and have many sides to our personalities. The mystery of a masquerade has always been popular as well as enticing. You can be amongst friends and hide as strangers, yet your personality comes out in your mask of choice, how you have decorated it and your behavior while hidden. Though I did not get to see Venice, where the tradition of Carnivale and these Masquerade masks has really sprung from, I embraced those in my surroundings here in Rome. Even the personality of the creator stays within the mask and when someone goes to buy them they reach for the one that calls out. It all comes back to who we are, who we believe ourselves to be, even when consciously we are still unsure.
“Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.” Oscar Wilde
