Choosing a mask
© Susan Dorothea White
Choosing a mask 1991stone lithograph (hand-coloured blue wash)
30 x 41 cm (printed image); 38 x 57 cm (sheet)
unique impression
Promised gift to the National Gallery of Australia
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.
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.