Steam Punk Kaleidoscope

For my final metals project this semester we had to design and build a prosthetic. As usual with art students, the results were so varied some of them barely hinted at the idea of a prosthetic. My piece ended up being a steam punk double kaleidoscope face mask representing the idea of lost innocence through the process of aging. The idea is to gain back some form of childhood wonder while wearing the mask but really it's tainted because the images are more psychedelic than innocent, and really, the mask looks anything but childlike. You can never really gain back that innocence after a certain point of life experience. Oh, and I cast beads for the kaleidoscopes that look like tits, genitals, razor blades, and drugs using the lost wax process. I know, right? Well, my teacher loved the idea.