Masks as culture: masks as technology, masks as art, masks as magic

[kestrell]

Anyone else spend an hour trying to find the perfect face mask? Alexx helped me pick out a very tentacular green man mask. Now I'm trying to figure out what costume, complete with appropriate mask, I will be wearing for Halloween.

Here are three articles and an essay by Oscar Wilde that explore the facets of mask-wearing

The Truth of Masks: A Note on Illusion by Oscar Wilde
http://www.online-literature.com/wilde/1310/

3 Questions: Historian Emma Teng on Face Masks
https://news.mit.edu/2020/meanings-face-masks-emma-teng-0819

MIT: The Meanings of Masks
https://shass.mit.edu/news/news-2020-pandemic-meanings-masks-series

At the Heart of Dismal U.S. Coronavirus Response, A Fraught Relationsip with Masks Washington Post
https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/at-the-heart-of-dismal-us-coronavirus-response-a-fraught-relationship-with-masks/2020/07/28/f47eccd0-cde4-11ea-bc6a-6841b28d9093_story.html

Comments

The Octopus Protective Mask

[jesse_the_k]

Damn, I've been searching for days and I can't find the photo, but that doesn't matter.

I saw a terrifyingly realistic octopus mask. Looked like it was made from leather or PVC, so it would be horribly hot. Upper pair of tentacles meet and close above the ears, the next pair curl on the cheekbones, the next pair meet and close below the occiput, and the final pair curl under the chin. The crowning creepiness is the oval globe of the head drooping from the chin, which looks a lot like a testicle.

You would rock it!