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AngellWraith When did I learn to disappear?
I am a wraith and silent
And I've forgotten how to be here
Now that I want to be seen

Slipping through my grasp
I'm trying to hold on to me
To stay and to be real
To be seen and to show you
I am more than imagination

A legacy of words unsaid
My whispers on the air
And you saw me slip away
Submit Lazy circles
Turning
Warping
Distorting

Thoughts turned inward
Burning
Needling
Torturing

No rest
No respite
No relief
From the person
I became

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Step four of my mask-creating. I'm sorry I don't have a better picture of this.

I'm a little amused by how, in the previous photo, the yellow construction paper is all pristine and clean, and now it's COVERED in stuff. There's even a great big splash of red powerade from the last day of sculpting, when I managed to knock over an almost full bottle all over the floor where I was working. Go me!

This was done in several stages. The first thing I did was the horns. I wanted to create a raised ring around the base of each horn, tucked in against the base of the horn like the cuticle of a nail, but I was too impatient to get the look quite right. The smaller horns were just sculpted to be plain, with a slight curve, but I really wanted the smallest horns to be just little horn buds, barely started growing. I'm really happy with the nubby shape.

When I came back to it, I changed the rings around the horns to slope neatly into the structure of the face, rather than be pronounced raised rings, which wasn't really what I was going for. Then I started on the nose, which gave me a bit of a panic attack as I plopped a triangular slab of clay onto the bent paper clips -- I had no idea how to make a nose! I decided I wanted to narrow the bridge, and a roughly shaped the flares of the nostrils, and it all just fell into place. That's my favourite part of the mask.

I did the eyebrows at the same time. I knew I had wanted them to be frowning, and I rolled out a cylinder of clay, bent it into a frowny wriggle, and squished it on. It looked good, so I tried to do the other side and... not symmetrical. I figured it was close enough, and let it be. I also realised, as I was positioning the eyebrows, that the horns weren't symmetrical either, but it was too late to change that.

The final part of the sculpture was the handle, and that was the biggest part, starting with the hand. I rolled out some cylinders of clay, and put them where I wanted the fingers. I started shaping, and disaster struck! While the paper mask was thicker, and therefore stronger than a plastic mask, it was also weak to getting damp. Working the clay directly onto the mask surface was causing water to soak into the mask, and the cheek directly under the hand "collapsed" under the weight of the clay. The fingers were essentially finished, so I wrapped the end of the handle in plastic wrap to keep the clay workable, and set the mask up in a way that the paper mask was pushed into the correct shape while the clay dried.

Disaster followed the next day, when it was so humid that every surface was damp. The mirror had fogged up, and the tile floors were slimy. Yuck. And my mask wasn't drying. I took the hair dryer to it for a little bit, but I didn't want to warp anything, so I left it for another day (though I was fast running out of days but this point).

Continuing the disaster, the flexing of the mask had meant that some of the fingers weren't in the positions I had intended, and the arched index finger had broken where the claw joined the mask. As the clay was still a little soft, I drilled a hole (in the mask) near the claw, and another into the clay hand, and forced an un-bent paperclip into the hand, threading it through the hole and bending it down to hold the finger. The index finger is a little wonky, and I had to sculpt it larger to cover the paperclip.

Finally, I could unwrap the handle and create a... well, handle, at the bottom. I wanted to define the part to be held onto, so I sculpted a (lop-sided) rim around the lower part of the handle, and a matching base at the end. I then imbedded the inner curved part of a paper clip into the clay.

I turned the mask over, and sculpted over the bits of hot glue on the inside, which were quite blobby and irregular. So I made them smooth, even if no one was going to be looking at the inside of the mask, it mattered to me! I broke out the hair dryer again, getting the drying process started, because I couldn't afford to lose another day to drying.

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