A Photographer's Vision Of The Magical Masks Of Mexico
On festivals that range from Day of the Dead to Easter, Mexicans hide their true identity behind fantastic masks that conjure up both indigenous — and European — traditions.
A mask can be as revealing as concealing. "To masque the face" is "t'unmasque the mind," English novelist Henry Field tells us. There are masks and costumes so powerful they obliterate the wearer's personality and change him or her into another being entirely. The ceremonial mask, suggests , professor emeritus of African art history at University of California, Santa Barbara, allows the wearer to truly say: "I am not myself."
