Face it!

BA degree project, 2024

Four masks of the four emotions people perform most online - anger, sadness, shock and happiness - 3D printed at 1:1 human scale and sealed in blister packs like toys. If those feelings are traded daily for attention, the piece asks what they would look like on a shelf, priced and shrink-wrapped.

A face scanned on a phone, cleaned and sculpted in Blender until the expression tips into caricature, then rebuilt as a low-poly shell and printed in white PLA. Each mask got its own packaging drawn in Illustrator: a colour keyed to its emotion, a number out of four, an age rating and a CE mark.

Four A3 blisters hung two to a panel at eye level, so a visitor meets them at their own scale. Written up as the thesis "Măștile și rolul lor în artă. Emoții vândute" under Conf. univ. dr. Kalló Angéla, Faculty of Fine Arts, UAD Cluj-Napoca. Exhibition photographs by Nicu Nistor.