Designer Siba Sahabi's collection of blue wooden masks are intended to question today's culture of digital self-representation, but could also double as last-minute architectural Halloween costumes.
The set of nine Persona headpieces are formed from layers of 18-millimetre-thick balsa wood ? a soft timber commonly used for architecture model-making ? cut using a computer numerically controlled (CNC) machine.

Finished with a light blue coating, reminiscent of the foam that is also a favourite with model makers, the masks are built up in stepped layers to form geometric shapes up to 60 centimetres (24 inches) in height.
Some resemble the crowns of art deco skyscrapers, while others could be mistaken for the radical designs of Italian firm Superstudio from the late 1960s.
However, the designer created the collection to explore "investigate the nature of individualism", according her project description.
The title, Persona, is taken from the Latin term that originally referred to wooden theatre masks. Sahabi was curious about how this has grown to encompass the aspects of ourselves that we want to show to others.

"Western psychiatry describes persona as the social face the individual presented to the world," she said, "and CG Jung described it as 'a kind of mask, designed on the one hand to make a definite impression upon others, and on the other to conceal the true nature of the individual'."
Sahabi's fascination was sparked particularly by soc...