Thread:Vanessa Ravencroft/@comment-79.180.223.168-20161226154136/@comment-4082020-20161226183323

Indeed

Masks have always been a very powerful element of human culture.

The ancient Greek theatre with the famous masks of Commedy and tragedy still being the symbol of theater today. Shamans used animal disguises and masks as early as the stone ages to channel the spirits of the animals. The practices of the Celtic people survived in the Krampus traditions of Swizerland, Allemanische Fastnacht and Austria.

Humans identify ohter humans nit by smell but by their face. Infants recognize their mothers face as soon as they can see. We respond to the facial expressions of another person. Take this away and the masked person becomes uncanny. An unmaksed person feels automnatically uneasy and even a little frightened when in the preesence of a masked person. A  masked person will loose inhibitions and sayand do things he or she would never do unmasked.

Masks are my fetish and hobby and I collect them for many years.