The Mask!

A few years ago (??), on my 50th birthday, Anne, a very good friend of mine, offered to make a mask of my face! If you've never had your face covered in very wet plaster gauze, with a small opening at your mouth, and required to lay very very still, for about 20 minutes....then you don't know what you're missing !!!! It is the ultimate in a meditation is all i can say! After the initial plaster mask is dried, and the extra stuff cut away....this takes about 2 days.....I then got to play around with beautiful handmade Japanese papers, cutting and pasting them onto the top of the mask! Gault, her husband....also a very good friend of mine....then created this lovely pine frame from which my mask (face!) hangs! She sits in my office here, next to my desk and computer....she is always beside me.....i love this mask and the history it represents.

This is as close to a self portrait i'm probably going to get....except of course a year ago....for the bliptogether gig, that was totally different!

It's been a crappy day weather wise here on Big Hill.....grey, more grey etc....it began to snow around dinner time and now i think it's raining! We're expecting some big storm to move in this weekend!!!

hope everyone is warm and cosy on this friday night!