141 - Face - Mask

141 - Face - Mask
Originally uploaded by gingerpig2000

I came across this image while doing some edits, so I cropped this out and blew it up to a reasonable size before creating this mask-like effect.

We all wear a mask, and almost always it is an imperfect one and we are often unaware of how imperfect it is. As the yars pass, the mask becomes increasingly unyielding until we become molded to the mask rather than the mask molded to us.

As an editor I have long been fascinated by how many people fail to understand that a critique has to have some method of scaling comments. It is easy to say that something is good or bad - but this is meaningless unless one adds how good or bad, to give some kind of context. One might say that a piece of work is better than another, or focus on some aspect and explain why it appears good or bad.