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Inger's first mask was the death mask of her son Nicholas.She did not make it;she only assisted. Then she assisted Michael Lee Walchuk for many years and learned the old technique using plaster directly on the face.
Now Inger makes deathmasks and lifemasks using alginate firmed up by plaster. The negative is made on a person's face. The negative hardens on the face and is removed. The process takes about one hour from start to finish. The positive is made by pouring hydrocal, sometimes called dental stone, or alabaster stone, into the negative. Pigments like ochre, red or green can be added to the hydrocal. The surface can be bronzed or goldleafed.

A mask to be done in hydrocal or real bronze can be ordered.
Deathmask in bronze
 
 
 

The masks or calcos have proved to be facinating in their use for drawing and painting exercises intruducing the portrait.Inger has recently taken to opening the eyes of the mask.
Lifemask in alabaster-stone  
 
  Michael Lee Walchuk, Mat Auvinen and Barbara Wolf are maskmakers with whom Inger has worked.
Lifemask silver on red    
 
 
Goldleaf    
  The deathmask has a long and interesting history. A lecture on this subject can be scheduled: "From the Egyptians to Madame Tusseaud and Thorvaldsen's Museum".