Meet the Man Creating Freakily, Disturbingly Realistic Masks

(eerie chiming music) - Faces are the most important subject matter in art. It's a never-ending source of material. When you put on one of my masks, you become somebody different. You start to embody that character, and have a lot of fun with it. My name's Landon Meier and I make disturbingly realistic masks. (bouncy, playful music) I never thought I was gonna make a living doing masks. I was a picture framer, loan officer, pizza delivery driver, and then I got laid off. I've always been interested in doing something that's really surreal and nightmarish. So, it was more or less an experiment that took off. I am the only person out there that's doing hyper-realistic likeness masks. I'm kind of this weird mad scientist down in the basement. I start off getting lots of reference material. The hardest part is doing the sculpture. That can take anywhere from four days to a year, but once the sculpt is done and I have a mold, it's about a one week process to make a mask. They are ungodly expensive. They range $500 and up, and sometimes even high as $7,500. Over the years I've made approximately 25 different designs, and I've produced with my own hands over 1,000 masks. What I make, I like to consider wearable art. These are super realistic sculptures you can put over your head and wear. People just seem to have this astonished reaction to the masks, that's what I love about 'em. (chiming)

Channel: Great Big Story

Views: 9,621,929

Rating: 4.9078875 out of 5

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Length: 2min 28sec (148 seconds)

Published: Wed Sep 20 2017