Natural Mask
                             D. A. Foster


The total self cannot be been.  We vary 
from time to time, from situation to 
situation, from perceiver to perceiver.  
While we are only incompletely revealed, 
by behavior and environment, we are all 
part of the same nature.  Layers of 
experience change, shape, define us­make 
us all different, yet our connection to 
nature makes us essentially the same.

I chose sandwiched negatives to symbolize 
our layers of experiences and our connection­
unavoidable and inseparable­to nature.  
While winter¹s snow and ice partially mask 
the landscape, they do not completely 
conceal or fundamentally change the scene.  
The same holds true of humans.  We are not 
the same person to everyone.  We are masked 
by situation, environment, and perception.  
Thus, we see only a part of who any one is at 
any one time.