Primary materials: Plastic from gallon water bottles, braided thread, markers.
In the anatomy of the gallon water bottle, there is a section below the handle that is well suited for making overlapping plates. I layered 12 of these together in a long strip and then rolled them into this wheel shape.
I added the pincers to create a circular shape on the horizontal axis. They are an innovation in that they’re longer than any pincer-type element I had previously made.
It took a while to figure out what to do for the eyes. Unlike a lot of masks, this one doesn’t have a face or any particular place where eyes “should” go. I didn’t want to put arbitrary holes in it.
After some experimentation with eye shapes and air holes, the front of this turned into a mess. One of the challenges of this medium is that there’s no undo button on plastic. It can take an hour to put something in, a few seconds to cut it, and an hour and a half to get back to a position to try again. On the second attempt I decided to go with something straightforward and streamlined, and I think it fits the look of the mask fairly well.