The Mask
“No man, for any considerable period, can wear one face to himself and another to the multitude, without finally getting bewildered as to which may be the true.”
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The Mask
Tag: mask
Mask with Lights
Artist Unknown, Mask of Child with Edison Lights, 1880, Plaster on Wood Stand, France
The Mask in the Smoke
Photographer Unknown, (The Mask in the Smoke)
The White Rabbit
Photographer Unknown, (Rabbit with Untied Laces)
“(Alice) “How long is forever?” (White Rabbit) “Sometimes, just one second.”
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The Man Who Shined Darkness
Photographer Unknown, (The Man Who Shined Darkness)
“So do we pass the ghosts that haunt us later in our lives; they sit undramatically by the roadside like poor beggars, and we see them only from the corners of our eyes, if we see them at all. The idea that they have been waiting there for us rarely crosses our minds. Yet they do wait, and when we have passed, they gather up their bundles of memory and fall in behind, treading in our footsteps and catching up, little by little.”
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Masked and Holding Flowers
Photographer Unknown,( LL Patin, Brooklyn, New York, 2017)
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Tlingit Mask
Tlingit Mask, Painted Wood and Bone, 1825, Alaska, United States
The Tlingit are an indigenous people of the Pacific Northwest Coast of North America. Their language is Lingit, meaning “People of the Tides”. They have a matrilineal kinship system, with children considered born into the mother’s line.
Nepcetat Mask
Central Yup’ik, Nepcetat Mask, Arctic Region, 1840-60. Wood, Swan Feathers, Snowy-Owl Feathers, Fox Teeth, Sealskin, Thong, Reed, Blood, Pigment, Ochre, Charcoal: Fenimore Museum, Cooperstown, New York
In all the classes of masks, the nepcetat or nepcetaq mask is ranked highest, being the most powerful mask. Each mask could only be used by its owner, and another person could not just take it and use it as effectively. Although the angalkuq or shaman would place the mask on his face without a string to hold it there, it would adhere to his face and not fall off even though he would bow down.
From the Forest Mist
Photographer Unknown, (From the Forest Mist)
“He liked the fog, the world quietened down and closed in. Glossy turned to matt, every stridency was muted, substance leached out of the brute matter all around. Things became notions, the brash present a vague memory.
By some parallel process of slippage, his innumerable childhood memories of foggy days morphed into other memories. The fog of illness, real or feigned, of fevers and flu and febrility.”
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J. C. Ballard: “Deserts Possess a Particular Magic”
Photographer Unknown, (Desert Dog Mask)
“Deserts possess a particular magic, since they have exhausted their own futures, and are thus free of time. Anything erected there, a city, a pyramid, a motel, stands outside time.”
–J. C. Ballard, The Atrocity Exhibition
The Viking Mask
Photographer Unknown, (The Viking Mask)