Masking

However another element I wanted to bring in was trying to mask this identity by creating masks. (influenced by artist Jane and Louis Wilson who use make-up as a form of camouflaging their faces from face recognition CCTV). 

Jane and Louise Wilson

Working in Photoshop over and over again in my minor project I wanted to go back to using just raw materials creating watercolour paintings depicting futuristic masks with geometric shapes, using the colours that I had taken from the 'DECRYPT' trend from WGSN. Here is an example shown below which I thought was really successful. 

These masks would prevent the human scanning process and would also be a piece of art within itself. I took inspiration from Picasso's cubist portraits and tribal masks, these worked really well by themselves but I wanted to bring them back into Photoshop and layer them on to the face. I did this to show what it would look like when these identity, this would be a section within what I would hope to be my final editorial magazine. masks were put on human faces to prevent the human barcode scanning process, giving a narrative to the images in the spread. 

This would act as my answer to a fashion spread, without including any garments, as it is more about the face. I also wanted to look at the figure as a whole and not just the face creating geometric and linear shapes for a masked garment, with the same colour palette to add more elements to the story. Masking the whole person and their identity.