After trauma significantly altered my life, I began to feel the need to put on a mask. Like putting on makeup, every day I found myself acting like someone who was not traumatized. It was a mask of pretense, and thus, for this piece, the model can be seen adorning her mask with makeup. This piece represents a blend of photography and performance. Capturing the performance with 35mm B&W film and then animating it into a video. Already masked for the day, the model dons on yet another mask, as if adapting to her surroundings. Just like traumatized people often do.