Death Masks

In Sharon’s lesson we learnt about death masks, I learnt that a death mask is a wax or plaster cast made of a person’s face following death. Death masks may be mementos of the dead, or be used for creation of portraits. A famous death mask in particular is "the unknown woman of the Seine", it was of an unidentified young woman whose death mask became a popular fixture on the walls of artists' homes after 1900. According to a story the women was pulled out of the Seine River in Paris around the late 1880’s. A pathologist at the Paris morgue was said to be so taken by her beauty that he had a mould of wax plaster cast of her face. The face of the unknown woman was also used for the head of the first aid mannequin. It was created by Peter Safar and Asmund Laerdal in 1958 and was used starting in 1960 in several CPR courses. Then leading it to be called "the most kissed face" of all time. 

http://mentalfloss.com/article/22871/creepiest-thing-ever-linconnue-de-la-seine

After looking and learning about these Death Masks we were given the opportunity to try them out ourselves. Below are the images from my 'Death Mask'.