Guero

Guero. Plaster bandage, paper clay, painted with acrylics. Part of the Sun Serpent Series.

Full face handheld mask male figure. Overall face painted light tan with red undertones, especially around nose and cheeks in a furrowed brow expression. Wrinkles carved in between brows, and along sides of nostrils, and painted brown around eyes. Raised sculpted eyebrows, mustache and beard with carved hairlines, painted white with reddish brown accents. Eyes have blue iris with brown outlines and white on either sides. Mouth is parted open with bottom lip sticking out and painted pink.

The Sun Serpent was a play produced by Childsplay, performed at Tempe Center for the Arts in 2011.
Artist and sculptor Zarco Guerrero made about 30 masks for the performance. All of the masks were made directly on the actors to better fit them during the performance.