The headgear series deals with how people unconsciously impose on themselves ways of being that result from adaptations to critical life experiences. An individual may develop a strong set of convictions, fundamentally altering the way he or she functions in the world. Though such constructs initially exist in a purely mental realm, because of the energy invested in maintaining the beliefs, to the individual they become concrete. My interest was in translating such ultimately insubstantial beliefs into actual artifacts.