Intentionally or not, people are doing their best to create the best version of themselves on social media, and threadstories is creating these masks to explore the reality of our lives in the digital era.

“The masks are sometimes monstrous, other times farcical façades that poke at the performative nature social media cultivates and celebrates,” she told Colossal.

To create these interesting masks, she starts by crocheting the balaclava which serves as a base to attach other materials and details. The outcome depends entirely on her creativity and materials she uses to create masks because she works intuitively and doesn’t prepare designs in advance.

“The yarns I use when tufting will create an endless array of outcomes from the same technique,” she says. “The choice of yarn can mean the difference between a mask with a lot of movement or a mask with a strong form that can be brushed and manipulated to hold numerous forms.”

The end results are impressive and are always followed by comments in the captions.

Take a look at threadstories’ unique artwork in the photos below.

The post Crocheted Masks Explore How We Portray Ourselves Online appeared first on MobiSpirit.

Pot started the Random Light series “as a material research, which is basically the starting point of each product created by Bertjan Pot. The outcome is usually an interior product showing a fascination for techniques, structures, patterns and colors,” we learnt on his website.

Each mask appears to have a different personality which the artist achieves using a unique combination of colors and shapes every time. Follow him on Instagram to see more of his work.

The post Bertjan Pot Makes Detailed, Bright Rope Masks appeared first on MobiSpirit.

“I have never fitted into the masses and never want to,” said the artist in an interview with FGUK Magazine. “My work has been and will be placed where I can be whoever I want to be. I feel safe and am the true me next to my boyfriend and in my work.”

His masks, while concealing the face, also draw attention to it, with their unusual shapes and original use of materials. These materials include anything from cleaning supplies to rubber. The result isn’t always pretty but it is always striking.

“I have and had a couple of dreams in my life,” Nikvashvili revealed. “One of them was and will always be to inspire others and make people understand the world I live in. To give people hope that everything is possible. And to see now that so many people relate or support my stories it makes me stronger and gives me hope!”

“Every artist needs an audience,” he added. “My work really tries to speak for a better world, a world without racism, sexism, homophobia and where people will not be punished for who they are. We need to support each other and fight for our rights and never forget history.”

Take a look at some of his work.

The post Artist Makes Masks Using Unconventional Materials appeared first on MobiSpirit.

“I work with masks as autonomous works of art as well as action-objects,” she writes on her personal blog. “For me the mask is a place where different elements come together as situation. The work is about this place-situation, more so than the mask as a theme or category of form.”

“The mask is a place. I am led by the phantasms appearing in the process of the making and the materials themselves. These guide my decisions and inform the objects I make,” she explains.

Using textiles, ribbons, beads and the likes, her masks make for a striking statement, calling in mind a fantastical world or a fairytale setting. “I have always collected materials I find around—textiles, beads, small bits of ribbon, little ornaments and things—and I needed somewhere to put these materials to use,” Kennedy explains in an interview with Office magazine. “I don’t draw, design or plan. I sculpt and see where the materials take me. But it’s funny, I have never been particularly interested in masks as a category.”

Take a peek at some of her one of a kind pieces in the gallery below.

The post Mask Yourself with Magnhild Kennedy’s Fantastical Creations appeared first on MobiSpirit.

Intentionally or not, people are doing their best to create the best version of themselves on social media, and threadstories is creating these masks to explore the reality of our lives in the digital era.

“The masks are sometimes monstrous, other times farcical façades that poke at the performative nature social media cultivates and celebrates,” she told Colossal.

To create these interesting masks, she starts by crocheting the balaclava which serves as a base to attach other materials and details. The outcome depends entirely on her creativity and materials she uses to create masks because she works intuitively and doesn’t prepare designs in advance.

“The yarns I use when tufting will create an endless array of outcomes from the same technique,” she says. “The choice of yarn can mean the difference between a mask with a lot of movement or a mask with a strong form that can be brushed and manipulated to hold numerous forms.”

The end results are impressive and are always followed by comments in the captions.

Take a look at threadstories’ unique artwork in the photos below.

The post Crocheted Masks Explore How We Portray Ourselves Online appeared first on MobiSpirit.

Pot started the Random Light series “as a material research, which is basically the starting point of each product created by Bertjan Pot. The outcome is usually an interior product showing a fascination for techniques, structures, patterns and colors,” we learnt on his website.

Each mask appears to have a different personality which the artist achieves using a unique combination of colors and shapes every time. Follow him on Instagram to see more of his work.

The post Bertjan Pot Makes Detailed, Bright Rope Masks appeared first on MobiSpirit.

“I have never fitted into the masses and never want to,” said the artist in an interview with FGUK Magazine. “My work has been and will be placed where I can be whoever I want to be. I feel safe and am the true me next to my boyfriend and in my work.”

His masks, while concealing the face, also draw attention to it, with their unusual shapes and original use of materials. These materials include anything from cleaning supplies to rubber. The result isn’t always pretty but it is always striking.

“I have and had a couple of dreams in my life,” Nikvashvili revealed. “One of them was and will always be to inspire others and make people understand the world I live in. To give people hope that everything is possible. And to see now that so many people relate or support my stories it makes me stronger and gives me hope!”

“Every artist needs an audience,” he added. “My work really tries to speak for a better world, a world without racism, sexism, homophobia and where people will not be punished for who they are. We need to support each other and fight for our rights and never forget history.”

Take a look at some of his work.

The post Artist Makes Masks Using Unconventional Materials appeared first on MobiSpirit.

“I work with masks as autonomous works of art as well as action-objects,” she writes on her personal blog. “For me the mask is a place where different elements come together as situation. The work is about this place-situation, more so than the mask as a theme or category of form.”

“The mask is a place. I am led by the phantasms appearing in the process of the making and the materials themselves. These guide my decisions and inform the objects I make,” she explains.

Using textiles, ribbons, beads and the likes, her masks make for a striking statement, calling in mind a fantastical world or a fairytale setting. “I have always collected materials I find around—textiles, beads, small bits of ribbon, little ornaments and things—and I needed somewhere to put these materials to use,” Kennedy explains in an interview with Office magazine. “I don’t draw, design or plan. I sculpt and see where the materials take me. But it’s funny, I have never been particularly interested in masks as a category.”

Take a peek at some of her one of a kind pieces in the gallery below.

The post Mask Yourself with Magnhild Kennedy’s Fantastical Creations appeared first on MobiSpirit.