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- Author: Miya Turnbull
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Miya TurnbullA photograph of four paper mache masks of a human face displayed in a row. Each mask is a self-portrait, displaying an uncannily realistic woman’s face. Her brown eyes, eyebrows, and lips are created using printed photographs, giving an eerily life-like appearance. Each mask is sliced into 2-3 pieces and off-set slightly, giving the impression of fragmented faces.View item -
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Origami Self-Portraits
Miya TurnbullA series of twelve photographs displaying a woman wearing origami sculptures as partial masks. The sculptures include paper cranes, frogs, boxes, cootie catchers, and butterflies. Each origami sculpture is printed with a photograph of one or more of the artist’s facial features. She holds the masks so that the printed feature covers that portion of her face.View item -
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Photos as Masks
Miya TurnbullA series of images displays a woman holding life-sized photographs of herself in masks and face paint over her face. Each photo is taken of the artist’s chest up and the photographs the artist is holding lines up with her shoulders. Many of the images are distorted via digital editing or double exposure, creating an eerie atmosphere. The images are meant to be reminiscent of the Zoom call layout, and can be seen as a video call with all the artist’s different selves.View item -
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Self Portrait Variations 7
Miya TurnbullA photograph of a woman standing up, leaning forward slightly in a nude, spandex bodysuit with another nude full-body bodysuit draped over her. Her elbows are angled upwards with a squared appearance. The body suit hangs on her face and drapes in front of her body, down to the floor. The arms of the suit loop over behind her own and hang behind her arms, creating the illusion of four arms.View item -
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Self-Portrait (Body Language)
Miya TurnbullA compilation of several photographs in a four by four grid taken during the artist’s performance with 'skin' suits (tan body suits). The artist’s body is obscured by a black bodysuit, which blends into the black backdrop seamlessly. She poses dynamically, draping the tan body suit over herself, creating twisted, abstract poses. These poses express movement and gestures, reminiscent of letters in a written language. Attached to some of the poses, and detached from others, are paper mache masks of the artist’s face.View item -
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Self-Portrait (Coming Undone- Rice Paper Variation)
Miya TurnbullA 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.View item -
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Self-Portrait (Feeling Discombobulated)
Miya TurnbullA photograph of a woman wearing an abstracted paper mache mask. The mask is a self portrait, featuring the facial features (eyes, eyebrows, nose, and lips) of the artist as printed photographs, creating an uncannily realistic appearance. The features on the mask are distorted and rearranged, illustrating the piece’s title, “Feeling Discombobulated.”View item -
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Self-Portrait (Multiple Selves)
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Self-Portrait (Woven/Coming Undone)
Miya TurnbullA series of six images of a portrait of a woman wearing paper mache masks with realistic human features in front of a white background.View item -
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Self-Portrait Variations 8
Miya TurnbullAn abstract photograph of a tan bodysuit draped over an obscured figure. The figure wears a black bodysuit, blending seamlessly into the black background. This creates the illusion of the tan suit floating in space. An uncannily realistic paper mache mask of the artist’s face lays at the figure’s feet.View item
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