This work is created entirely with cosmetics. Rather than using cosmetics as beauty products, I treat them as a painting medium and as materials that construct identity. Just as makeup creates another face upon the skin, cosmetics become a metaphor for the social mask—the persona—we wear in everyday life.
The figure appears wrapped and concealed, while the cosmetic surface slowly melts and drips away, revealing the instability of the identities we construct. Through familiar cosmetic materials, I explore the fragile boundary between the self we perform and the self that remains unseen.
