Our weekend

Apart from this cold that I have now, the trip was just....... oh my lord.

This weekend was absolutely an experience that I will cherish with me, until the day that I find Atlantis.  I feel as though the class has all bonded together nicely, and that we've all really learnt a thing or two about each other. But what really took my heart on this trip, was the history behind the Korean masks. To think, that a young boy had made fourteen of these masks, each with it's own meaning carved into every spec of the wood is simply breathtaking.

This is just one of the many masks that we had seen on the trip, and technically, I think that it is the best out of all the fourteen traditional masks that there are. I love how with this mask, the mouthpiece moves according to however the user moves it. Looking up to look happy, and looking down the look mad. The number of wrinkles on each side of the mask having a specific meaning to it also gives me the influence that I would need in order to wake up one night from a dream and make some of my own masks (what the young boy had done).

What really gives me the creeps about the mask though, is how spirits travel all the way from the top of a mountain just to reanimate themselves into one of the actor's bodies. I mean, the faces are already there to control the facial expressions of the actors, but to think that a spirit is actually controlling you like a puppeteer is truly remarkable. This kind of brings me back to what Mr. Hill had been talking about when people preform in acts with Butoh theatre. When people have to wake up the theatrical Gods around them in order for them to use the actor's bodies on stage.

I have been editing a video with all the footage that I was taking on the trip, and I'll try to have that up by tonight. That video will be a part of this blogpost, so stay tuned!

Thanks so much Mrs. Moon, Mr. Moon, Mr. Dornbach and Mrs. Dornbach for this magnificent trip. I actually hope we could do this again before the year or perhaps even, the semester is up!