Miles Collyer had a collection of over 300 balaclavas and 45 tracksuit tops.

He wanted to match up the track top and the balaclava.

“The track top is passive, it’s all about style, it’s all about fashion, it’s visual. And then there’s the mask. It can have much more serious underlying issues where it comes from, be it terrorism or crime. A lot of people connect it with that. I personally don’t, but it’s there in the subtext. This work may have underlying currents of social commentary, but I’m not trying to expound on those. In this series it was basically two elements coming together; a collection of them both. If you put on a mask, you aren’t yourself anymore, you aren’t representing yourself. And, depending on how you use it, you could become whatever you want to be. It eliminates the personality and creates its own personality.”

A new exhibition in the Böhm TradeCenter: Miles Collyer, TrackTop Masks.

Via artpost.
Be balaklava-gorgeous.