A friend of mine in my Oakland studio a few years ago. I have this obsession with the weird shapes and textures of packaging materials and items, and I typically get my “models” (I never actually use models, just friends and acquaintances) to take something up from my collection and play with it while I take warmup photos. This time I decided to make them the whole point of a few images, and encouraged my friend to use it like a mask, with a surface texture and angularity that contrasted really nicely with her body and skin. I like the result… And yes, there are more mask photos, hence the pretentious sounding “Mask 1” — I just couldn’t think of a suitable name.