Village Girl - Handmade Sculpture

Description: My first mask work. I made it all with paper-mache and colored it with oil paint.

40x23cm

Story: My first mask work at school. During the drying phase, a jealous friend in our class threw her upside down on break, so there's a little flatness on her face. I didn’t fix it to not forget.

Jealousy is a very harmful emotion that I don't understand, which harms oneself rather than the other person… They should be treated.

In Anatolia, women and girls have special head decorations. New brides also have separate head decorations.

It differs in each region. There are really very colorful, beautiful head and dress decorations each different from one another..

I tried to show with examples from the sources I worked in my sculpture and painting works. These are the subjects that I am very interested in and that I work with pleasure. In my mind, there are more things I want to recreate...