Each mask takes Ýrúrarí hours of hard work, and even though the artist got some help from her knitting machine, she made most of the elements by hand. “There’s more sculpturing you can do with your hands.” It was also a way for her to transform her former sweater designs.

“I was definitely not expecting the masks to become such a hit or that I would connect so well with the facemask form,” Ýrúrarí said. “But it makes sense, I do work with knitting pieces that dismantle or change the body. I don’t know why I never thought of knitting something for the face before!”