to be honest I like this more than the one I carved yesterday, it has a simplicity to it and the knot in the wood adds to its character
Whilst carving this I found myself thinking about the Tschaghatta masks from Lotschental which is in the Swiss Alps.
I really like the more primitive looking masks as these are real pieces of folk art. The carver uses what he has got to hand so if the piece of wood has a knot in it he makes a feature of this and turns it in to a wart or a lump on the face. A lot of these mask carvers are self taught and they don’t really plan what they are going to carve, which is how I approach and carve these heads, I have a basic idea but they really come together when carving very much like thinking on my feet
The Art and musings of Jeffrey Knopf 