I search for  a euphoric appreciation of  the human visage, a sensate connection to humanity in general. The question involves seeing, for a moment, beyond one's associations.  One can  dwell in the light of commonality and variation. Currently this involves observing a variety of people in real space as much as possible,  returning to the studio to make clay  studies from imagination, casting  the  clay into plaster,  then painting it. These works  are not meant to represent any one individual. 
Leading up to this current practice I studied the face through many means as an appreciation of  the range of human features. Some examples are shown below.

One Set Of Features, Four Different Facial Volumes, Eight Skin Tones
Matt Mitchell, 2019

​Explorations, Measures