PERSONALITY MASKS
Assignment Description How the world sees us, and how we see ourselves is often very different. We sometimes put on a mask for the world to see. The purpose of this assignment is for you to explore your personality; your characteristics, hopes, dreams, preferences, and fears through art.
Materials You are encouraged to use a variety of materials such as sequins, ribbons, beads, feathers, dried flowers, magazine cut-outs, etc.. You do not need to purchase anything to decorate your masks!
Scoring Your mask will be scored on a scale of 0-100. The front, decorated portion of your mask (how the world sees you) is worth 50 points, and the written portion (your description of the symbols on your mask) will be worth 50 points. The more effort and creativity, the more points! You can earn 10 percentage points extra credit on this assignment by sharing discussing your mask with the class! Scroll down to see some personality mask examples!
Examples (masks that have earned high grades) Screaming for Freedom Red is for the anger that I have bottled up inside; Black is for the agony and the pain that I try to hide. People say, You can trust me, so I let them in; But they hurt me and I hide all over again. And so I build a wall around myself So no one can come in. The door is open a little bit, for progress that I m trying; There is no door knob on the outside So they can t come in and see me crying. The great wall is not done, I haven t gone though all my life; But I will try my hardest just to win and strive. And so I build a wall around myself so no one can come in.
Examples (masks that have earned high grades) Life is Good in this little sunny garden" surrounded by the flowers that I love. yet, I m ready to move. I ve seen what there is to see here; Learned what there is to learn. But here I remain, confined by a lock of time. I would climb the fence but don t for fear of crushing the roses. I long to continue my journey, to see where the path will take me. I have heard of dark forests filled with vicious beasts of sorrow and despair, but ever the optimist all I see is sunlight. Through the knot holes in the gate I have seen the meadows" and cottages surrounded by flowers. But what lies over the hill? Neuschwanstein castle, perhaps. If only I could leave my garden.
Examples (masks that have earned high grades) My mask is really sad on the left side because it represents when my Dad died. My Dad dying totally changed my personality. I didn t really care about things that I used to care about and nothing really mattered anymore. I did a sun separating the two sides to show how my personality is finally starting to shine through again. The right side has flowers, because a flower slowly grows and I m slowly becoming my old self again. I did some leaves on the sad side to show that I ve grown so much from my Dad dying and it doesn t hurt as much anymore. I try to remember my Dad, but I feel like I am slowly growing over him and forgetting him. I m glad that I m finally happy again, like my right side, because I know my Dad would want me to be.
Examples (masks that have earned high grades) I sometimes feel like I don t have my head on straight. I feel that I always have a façade to present to protect myself from getting hurt. I feel blind to the world because I don t think I see things the same way that other people do. At least I don t perceive or read things the way they should be. My exterior is a lot different than my interior. The way people see me most of the times is not the way I feel because I tend to hide my true feelings from most people, which sometimes scares me because I think that I might forget the way that I really feel. I may look confident on the outside, but I m scared on the inside. Scared to forget who I really am or at least who I perceive myself to be. In a way I feel like there s a piece of me missing, sort of a void. That I hope to find or fill.