Choosing a Mask
© Susan Dorothea White
Choosing a Mask 1991unique stone lithograph (hand-coloured blue wash)
30 x 41 cm (image), 38 x 57 cm (sheet)
Unique
Collection of the artist
Artist's Statement:
Influenced by the poem by Mexican poet and diplomat, Octavio Paz (1914–1998),"El oto / The other":
He invented a face for himself.
Behind it
he lived, died and was resurrected
many times.
His face now
today has the wrinkles of that face.
His wrinkles have no face.