"I love your mask!"

Well thank you honey, I've made it myself!

Carved it out of wood and painted it with pigments of fine crushed nature and liquids.

Charcoal, burned up wood for the midnight black lines, framing it's features like a wall, holding them in place together,

Clay soils for the chestnut ochre, it's skin tanned naturally, just like mine,

Lapis Lazuli crushed, for your beloved ultramarine, for it's tears in it's tear sacs,

Mucous sea snails, expensive and rare, killed for it's tyrian purple eye bags and it's phoenician red lips,

Carmine, beetles killed and shredded for it's crimson cheeks, swollen from it's sobbing,

Chlorophyll and malachite, both extracted from nature, to capture it's green shining iris.

A mask made of nature and work, blood, sweat and tears turned into my greatest artwork!

The mask that I used to wear, searching for your pity.

June 8th 2022