Hollow-mask

“I don’t change the world, I let the model change me.” A mold is crafted from a human face, cast intricately to capture every contour and expression as a model would collect data, only to reveal another mask beneath it. The face mold represents the doubling of a person’s identity, to be removed, swapped, adapted or appropriated. We cannot perceive the face cast as hollow. The human brain perceives it as convex when it is in fact concave, simply because it is so unlikely that a human face is hollow. This emphasizes the immense power of top-down knowledge derived from past experiences over the senses, just as foundational models are built from already existing information and cannot perceive the external world for what it really is, forcing it into an illusion.