Masks can be just for decorative purposes, used to create atmosphere to enliven a room. They are usually have elaborate designs, which are of great beauty, creativity, diversity, and the richness of human imagination. It represents our desire to show where we have been, our present, our future, heroes, demons, dreams, fears, fantasies, and nightmares.
Mardi Gras Masks
Mardi gras is the season of carnival, in is the celebration prior to the fasting season of lent. It is traditional to wear a mask on Mardi gras day; it allows us to truly be free or anonymous. Masks can express your inner secretive personality or your alter ego.
Masquerade Masks
These were historically made for a masquerade ball, a party that involved costume, dance and most importantly masks. The ideas behind these occasion was in the realms of pure play, itself an avid pastime in the 17th and 18th centaury, is found the Art of Masquerade. Masquerade Masks are things of play; they enable us to enter the realms of fantasy and dreams, things that we all inhabit within our own imagination. Just like we drink to allow us to socialize more freely, so we aid ourselves with masks to do the same.
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