Inception

Just mucking around on a beautiful sunshiny day at the end of March, I picked up "the Book of Imaginary Beings" and laid down in the hammock. Six hours later, with underlined passages and sketches on many of the pages, I was on to something. I decided I would do it before looking at the logistics of the thing. This is the largest endeavor I've taken on since my thesis work in school, if not larger. Assuming I complete this, that will be 197 masks (161 different creatures, but one will need 36 masks). My thought was to start on my birthday, April 1 and try to finish by my next birthday. One year, though, is very little time, considering that I also own and run a small business. I'll try, though. So far I've not begun a single mask for the project. I have, instead, been very adult. I've looked at logistics, and written up a budget; I've also found that the copyright of the book is a bit difficult. There are newer versions published, but the Giovanni translation/collaboration is the one I fell for, and I plan to stick with that one. I've daydreamed quite a bit about the finished collection and what I could possibly do with, where I could possibly hang, so many masks.

I'm in love.