Face Your Fears

Not every mask can be a serpent demon from the bowels of hell. Some are gonna just look like normal people with giant foreheads, such as our good friend David, from accounting, here. I love this mask because it's so...normal? There's almost nothing spectacular about it, and yet that's what makes it spectacular. I like to imagine that this guy, David (from accounting), is just a normal dude with a normal life and job. He just happens to have an enormous wrinkly forehead. But he doesn't let that stop him from living his dream! Which apparently is accounting. I love the dark tone given to this, and I especially love the wide nose and the black circles around the eyes (which I can only assume is from all the crying he does every night because he's an accountant). David - from accounting - seems to have what appears to be a cold sore on his lip, and he's slowly starting to bald, but hey, these are things lots of people deal with, which only makes him all the more rel...

When I was a little girl growing up, my mother collected records. One of her favorite artists was Todd Rundgren, and for many many years, his album "Acappella" was framed and hanging on the wall of our apartment living room. A lot of other children might have seen this and felt perturbed by it, but I was a strange little girl who collected dead animals and couldn't do math to save her life. I was drawn to this imagery, for reasons that, now, make absolute perfect sense. In many ways, this was the first mask I ever really was capable of appreciating as a piece of art. Lots of countries use masks. Whether they're decorative or they're used in actual ceremonies, they're a big part of certain cultures. Thanks to the website History Of Masks , I was able to ascertain that masks in West Africa are used in ceremonies in which the purpose is to communicate with ancestral spirits. In fact, Africa likely utilizes masks to the upmost extent out of everyone in the world. ...

This is the age old story of a horrible ghoulish beast, and the woman who loves him. Every now and then I come across a mask while searching for new ones to talk about that genuinely makes me shout excitably by how goddamned cool it is. Unfortunately, most of these masks are so expensive that I can't afford to buy them and add them to my own collection, which is a damn shame considering this one in particular is a perfect companion piece to the mask I bought a few months back. Alas, this is the sad world I live in. This blog isn't a for profit venture, you know. It's a hobby, something I do to get a few chuckles and admire some wicked cool art. I mean, you're certainly welcome to pay me to do this, nobody's stopping you and I'd appreciate it, but I don't expect it to happen. Unless maybe I decide to make rewards for the people who do. Make sexy photoshoots wearing these masks, dressed in skimpy nighties. That sounds good, right? You'd want that, don...