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The Hero with a Thousand Faces
This was my first semester final this year. We were to make a piece about significant influence or influences on our lives. I was trying to think of a way to tie all these things that had influenced me together (Such as the Watchmen and Star Wars and Halo and such) when I remembered all of the mythology books I used to read when I was a kid. I thought back to Joseph Campbell’s book The Hero with a Thousand Faces where he says that all stories and myths are basically the same story with different characters and realized that all my influences were basically modern myth. I decided to represent this with a figure of a archetypical hero with no face, because he could be anyone.
Sculpey clay and metal with spray paint on Masonite for the background. December 2010.
The Hero with a Thousand Faces
This was my first semester final this year. We were to make a piece about significant influence or influences on our lives. I was trying to think of a way to tie all these things that had influenced me together (Such as the Watchmen and Star Wars and Halo and such) when I remembered all of the mythology books I used to read when I was a kid. I thought back to Joseph Campbell’s book The Hero with a Thousand Faces where he says that all stories and myths are basically the same story with different characters and realized that all my influences were basically modern myth. I decided to represent this with a figure of a archetypical hero with no face, because he could be anyone.
Sculpey clay and metal with spray paint on Masonite for the background. December 2010.