Tag: masks
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102 | Masks :: Treasure Island, 2012
Love this happy exotic rainbow face with a patriotic background, found at the flea market on Treasure Island 🙂
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101 | Masks :: Hanoi, Vietnam, 2012
Found this wall of masks where everyone’s eyes looked closed! Not stereotyping Asians at all… 😛
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099 | Masks :: Bali, Indonesia, 2013
Stealing the caption for today: Although Barong masks have become popular items among foreign collectors, to the Balinese they are much more than objects of aesthetic merit. Every Balinese village has a Barong that it considers its guardian. The Barong mask is a means of both giving the spirit tangible form and harnessing its energy.…
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098 | Masks :: Bogota, Colombia, 2015
I always found masks at museums haunting, as if they bear a spirit that’s waiting to communicate with the willing stranger.
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097 | Masks :: Jiufen, Taiwan, 2015
Jiufen is a small tourist town in Taiwan known for its delicious food, and it has all kinds of random tourist traps… I mean attractions, like this masks museum. All the masks are rather ugly, but each one is given a name, and this particular one is named Jeremy Lin. I’m really curious whether there…