{"id":1099,"date":"2016-05-16T08:18:01","date_gmt":"2016-05-16T15:18:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/?p=1099"},"modified":"2016-05-15T10:48:07","modified_gmt":"2016-05-15T17:48:07","slug":"commissioning-a-mask","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/?p=1099","title":{"rendered":"Commissioning a Mask"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/IMAG0800-1024x561.jpg\" alt=\"IMAG0800\" width=\"1024\" height=\"561\" class=\"alignleft size-large wp-image-1100\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/IMAG0800-1024x561.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/IMAG0800-300x164.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/IMAG0800-768x420.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/IMAG0800.jpg 1909w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I first saw Eric Bornstein&#8217;s masks at a festival more than 20 years ago. He was performing folk tales with a small group of actors playing all of the roles using the masks to portray monsters, gods, heroes, and all of the other mythic gods. The performance was in the kid&#8217;s portion of the festival, but I was spell-bound and didn&#8217;t want to leave. I chatted with him briefly as he was packing up and discovered he took students. I was primarily a doll maker then, but there is a lot of overlap in techniques and styles between the two so I was excited at the thought of studying with him. But with kids and work and other projects, I wasn&#8217;t able to study with him until 2014.<\/p>\n<p>Last fall, I decided to commission one of his masks. I&#8217;ve never commissioned a piece of artwork before. He has done a number of beautiful deity masks, including some greek gods that are amazing. He is going to make a goddess inspired by Athena, working words and images collaged into the helmet.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I first saw Eric Bornstein&#8217;s masks at a festival more than 20 years ago. He was performing folk tales with a small group of actors playing all of the roles using the masks to portray monsters, gods, heroes, and all of the other mythic gods. The performance was in the kid&#8217;s portion of the festival, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1099","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art-prof","category-editorial"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1099","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1099"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1099\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1105,"href":"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1099\/revisions\/1105"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1099"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1099"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1099"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}