The objective of this assignment was to pick a song and create a physical depiction of an emotion from the song. The song I chose was called Let Her Go by passenger. I love this song not only because of its great acoustics and pleasant melody, but also because of the strong emotions it invokes. I always get this deep sense of sadness and nostalgia when I listen to it. The song is about a man who only realizes how much he loves this girl after it’s too late, because he let her go. I interpreted this feeling as regret, which is the emotion I tried to portray in my mask. I think regret is one of the most painful emotions, because you can never go back in time and change the past, and you will always have to live with the consequences of what happened. When trying to decide how to express this emotion on my mask, I decided that regret is a mixture of feelings, like sadness, pensiveness, frustration, loneliness, and maybe even anger. I sculpted my mask with key facial features, such as drooping eyes and mouth, and furrowed brows, which gave my mask its expression. I was quite satisfied with my ceramic mask because I thought it really captured the look I was hoping for, but the ceramic mask was just the armature and the paper mache was the real project. I had some difficulty transferring the features on the armature to my paper mache, and I thought a lot of the emotion would be erased. I tried to return some of the regretfulness onto the face when I painted it with acrylics. I added small details, such as dark circles under the eye to represent lack of sleep, and blue eyes, as blue sometimes represents sadness or despair. I cut out the mouth so the lips look slightly parted, which is meant to represent the words never said. In these ways, I was able to bring back some of the emotion on to my paper mask, and overall I am quite pleased with the result. My person is kind of creepy looking and has a huge nose, but I think there is definitely some slivers of sadness and regret shown on his face. I remember when I received the project instructions I thought I would never be able to portray emotion on a human face, since I am really unfamiliar with how to make realistic faces. However, I think I was pretty successful with this difficult project so I am quite proud of myself. I grew as an artist in multiple ways, as I learned to sculpt human face, study features of emotion, and paper mache. I’m happy with the final outcome and the skills I learned this unit. Someone should make a mask of my expression!