THE ANCIENT ART OF LIFEMASKS

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Frozen portraits in time, entombed images and supra life-like reproduction were the trade marks of the life masks. With warmed rubber every detail of a persons face was recreated as I convinced friends and relatives to undergo forty-five minutes of silent skin care.

In the search for fame I did Candy Darling bedside and lifted her manly pores in detail. After I had applied eyelashes, eyeliner, lipstick and pancake skin color and placed her in a plastic box filled with rubber roses Ray Johnson, famous correspondence artist, was given custody as mentioned in this letter.

Hope Stansbury, a horror film actress and rumored study to Candy Darling was kind enough to lie in my window like a vampire's corpse with impression poured over her face and straws in her nostrils to the quiet wonderment of early Soho street crowds.

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As I evolved into jewelry I was lucky to use the same approach with the international model, legend and artist, Verushka and pressed warmed wax across her eyes and brow to make this carnivale life mask.