Lucienne Lovelette TheArtMagazine Collection International 02 February 5, 2014 - ISSN 0799-3609 | Page 493

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also wanted to break away from my usual source and subject matter. So,
I found a way to translate various non-European cultures into my masks.
You may identify with them if you are of South Asian, Caribbean or African
descent. All cultures are mixed together to create a sense of the tribal.
Carnival figures strongly in my work. So does the irreverent in the masks with
tongues that stick out.
Spending 10 years working with a population of adults with developmental
disabilities has impacted me so much that the tongue sticking out, the deformed
smile and the overall oddness of my masks is because of this group of people.
They made me more human. Taught me to love.
I am attracted to the fringe element, the misfit.
I am one myself.
Now my job, with a strong connection to my faith, involves bringing the misfit,
the outcast into view; Giving voice to the voiceless. Giving a face to the invisible.
Exploring the beauty in the overlooked, the grotesque, and the dismissed. I just
do it by way of sometimes vibrant color and obsessive line work because…It gives me
great pleasure. So, think of me….a very unremarkable looking woman turning 60 on
Valentine’s Day, sitting at her small studio area making other worldly masks.

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