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Drawing from mirror I was finding it useful drawing from mask and seeing it not as a face but a landscape discovering the form. Drawing from the mask which covers features and blanks expression almost repressive. The Financial Times mask using headlines from the Financial Times on war, art and pension worries.

Richard Pochinko used a method for clown development drawing on previous traditions to develop their mask. His clown schools had participants make 6 masks that can represent whole life experience. Passing through these and experiencing leads to them combined as the clown's face.

The Trickster seems shameless, articulate, unpredictable breaks the rules, exposes and ridicules authority and can shapeshift. The trickster understands shame and uses their own masks to expose the masks of those with power.

The Fool has no need of a mask experience and no plans, delighted by the present moment with will leap into the unknown without fear or baggage experience life as if newly arrived from planet Zog.

The true self is shameless, innocent and found here in the present moment.

Final work for module

After breaking the pop rivet gun My intention was start a new mask sewing together squares which I prepared and degreased ready for patina. The patina was going to be blue from ammonia and salt. I collected newspaper headlines that I photographed and took to printer who laser printed on acetate. I was going to use this to create transfers of the toner on the copper squares to resist the amonia patina leaving copper headlines on the squares before shaping and sewing them together. Unfortunately I forgot to reverse the images before printing so the toner transfers would have been mirror images (back to front writing). That is as far as I got, basically I did not have enough time to complete and am unlikely to do so soon.