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A series of images displays the sequence of a rice paper mask crumbling away from a woman’s face. In the first image, the artist holds a gray rice-paper mask over her face. Throughout the series of images, she presses the mask to her face repeatedly as the mask crumbles into smaller and smaller pieces. It crumbles away at her touch, even as she attempts to hold it to her face. Throughout the series, the mask becomes more fragmented. In the last image, the mask falls away displaying the artist’s face.
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Self-Portrait (Coming Undone- Rice Paper Variation)

Miya Turnbull

This image called "Self-Portrait (Coming Undone- Rice Paper Variation)" similarly shows a mask breaking/falling apart to reveal my face underneath. During the pandemic, I tried to push myself further into the realm of performance art so this is one of my first attempts at performing with my masks. These are still images compiled together, taken from video, where I made a mask of my face out of rice paper and then I began to crack and break it while wearing it.