The We Are the Contributors mini project got me thinking recently about the various roles we play.  Yet we aren’t just taking on different tasks, we’re often putting on an almost completely different persona according to where we are and with whom we’re interacting.  These sculptures by German artist Reinhard Voss, with their Cubist-like style seem to give us a physical manifestation of the various faces we put on.

Voss’s sculptures are created by piecing together strips of wood, leaving our eyes to see the varying grains and planes making up each face.  The effect is eerie at times, resulting in a face contorted or seeming to have been erased.

The different “faces” we put on can be so similar, can’t they?  We might lose our mouth ( i.e. hold our tongue ) in certain situations or be blinded in others.  How often do we are we truly showing who we are?  In what company do we feel we can show the most honest face?

To see more of Reinhard Voss‘s work, please visit his website.

All images are via the artist’s website.