Masks have been around since ancient times and have been worn for performance, entertainment, to disguise, conceal or protect the wearer. They have been used in ceremony, storytelling and dramatic enactment.
The wearable image of a face created in a mask can be used for it’s expressive potential in enactment and ritual. Masks are a universal art form that generally evokes power, magic and mystery for both the wearer and the viewer.
Crating a mask from scratch or decorating a pre-made mask can lead to exploring one’s persona. Mask making invites the artist to explore the persona they reveal or conceal from the world.
Through the art of mask making we can access our creativity and boost our self-confidence. Masks can bring consciousness to how the we see our self or what we fantasize we would like to be. Since masks have an outside and an inside, we can consider portraying how we really feel on the inside of a mask and how we feel others see us on the out side of the mask we create. Mask making can be a profound, revealing and personally liberating experience.
In closing, masks can be used to tell our personal story or to enact a dramatic global/political tragedy or to heal us spiritually, emotionally and/or physically.
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Party Masks (Twenty to Make)
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