Kathleen Vaughan - Student Gallery, Two sides of the story



Pictured at various stages of development, this student's artwork takes advantage of the two-sidedness of masks and other forms of relief sculpture. This structural and visual duality allows students to portray split psychological or emotional realities. Here, for instance, the artist has portrayed a conventional female persona on the outside - social - surface of her mask, and decorated the more private inside with individual personal imagery.

Here, the artist builds up the surface of her mask with another layer of paper maché. Generally, about four layers were used, with extra reinforcement at stress points of edges and plane changes.	When dry, the paper maché shell is gently prised away from the clay base. Liquid dish soap was used as a release.

Decoration begins: collaging cut-outs from magazines and photocopies of personal images. Some students also used paint and drawing materials.

Two sides of the story - Outside	Two sides of the story - Inside

Outside and inside the finished piece, highly accomplished and interesting.

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