For ancient people and savage tribes, mask has been a medium that bridges between visible world and invisible world. God, mythical spirit, ancestral spirit, you name it, one can transform into supernatural beings with a mask - as a result, they believed that they can communicate with a divine world in order to escape from curses or to be protected by a guardian spirit. We already know that these beliefs came from shared illusion resulted from their subconscious fear and desire. what they saw through their masks, it must be their own concept that is buried deep inside their mind. If anything, those who put masks try to stay themselves while trying to be someone else rather than losing themselves while being themselves. This “duality of beings” occasionally puts oneself to solitude, and
Necica. To be something else with a mask.
23.11.17 — Motoki Nakatani
For ancient people and savage tribes, mask has been a medium that bridges between visible world and invisible world. God, mythical spirit, ancestral spirit, you name it, one can transform into supernatural beings with a mask – as a result, they believed that they can communicate with a divine world in order to escape from curses or to be protected by a guardian spirit. We already know that these beliefs came from shared illusion resulted from their subconscious fear and desire. what they saw through their masks, it must be their own concept that is buried deep inside their mind. If anything, those who put masks try to stay themselves while trying to be someone else rather than losing themselves while being themselves. This “duality of beings” occasionally puts oneself to solitude, and