In the *Deathmask* series, Jaeyeol Han overlays paint on somebody's face to make it look like nobody, and recreate it as a modern mummy portrait that anybody can become. This series consists of only 99 works.

The *Deathmask* project aims to translate the Passersby project of the past ten years into digital sculptures.

The *Passersby* series, also shown in my recent solo exhibition, was a project in which I gazed at the faces of individuals I have denominated as the passersby, recorded the fleeting afterimages into drawings, and later deconstructed the drawings and translated them into paintings. 

The *Deathmask* series, a project in which I have associated the paintings to sculptures and created a genealogy, was inspired by the symbolism of “imago” in Pliny the Elder’s works as identified by Georges Didi-Huberman, French philosopher and art historian.

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In this 𝘋𝘦𝘢𝘵𝘩𝘮𝘢𝘴𝘬 series, I am trying to better understand on painting through sculptural experience while translating 𝘗𝘢𝘴𝘴𝘦𝘳𝘴𝘣𝘺 series into three dimensions. I overlay paint on somebody's face to make it look like nobody, and recreate it as a modern mummy portrait that anybody can become. This series consists of only 99 works. And all works become NFTs and are minted with only five editions. 

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Deathmask #7 - Passersby, Lay On

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