Easter vacation

My first publication finally arrived this week, which I published using the website Blurb, The book is a form of documentation following the development and production of the aluminium hybrid skull sculpture. This was my first attempt at creating a book therefore some margins are slightly too small however ultimately the book was as success, I'm considering using publications more in the future to help document projects or to act as a compendium of my research.
Below I have attached a digital version of my book having scanned and edited the pages...

Furthermore this week I have continued researching themes for my project and have started forming my proposal for the upcoming research report which I intend to continue from my 3000 word text from BA2ba, I want to continue to research and evaluate the relations between the human and non- human and as an extension the possibility of  a hybrid of the two. This week I re visited the notion of tribal body art or natural face masks as a form of invoking the primal uncanny, a great example of this shown in modern media is the poster for the BBC drama taboo, in which the title character who dresses in civilised clothes has an ash based face mask. I therefore tried to research how such a mask would work, therefore I covered my face in wet ash, unfortunately when I asked my house mate to photograph this for documentation I assumed they knew how to use the camera also I scrubbed the ash onto my face in seconds it began stinging and when I removed it my face was marked for about a week. Below is a photo of the results...

 So the ash was a bit of a failure therefore I want to try dried clay next I still think that this concept has potential.
I have also started considering returning to portrait paintings which I studied in my first year of A levels. Therefore I tried to consider how I could use portraiture to dehumanise a human face, to incorporate the non-human. Therefore I started looking at the work of Andrew Salgado who's paintings explore the human forms using an expressive style which sometimes disfigures the subject matter completely. Therefore as a study in my sketchbook I printed a copy of a Salgado's work on to calico which I then painted onto and later stitched into with a sewing machine to emphasise the marks and layers of the non-human features I tried to work in. I've scanned and attached the sketchbook page below.