Vidas Opuesto

Vidas  Opuesto is the name I have given my mask meaning opposite lives in Spanish. This is a metaphor for the two completely different sides shown in my mask, the left one representing dispar and darkness and the right representing life and light. In ancient time it was believed that in every humans and animals  soul there was a dark devilish spirt with them from the day they were born, waiting to arise. They believed that the only way to get rid of this negative spirt was to travel deep within the guarded forests and drink the milk from the sacred flowers “atesorada”as shown on the top of the mask.

Starting from the bottom from going to the top of the mask represents the persons before life and the adventure they must had to over come to make it ultimately to the atesorada flower and drain this dark spirt from there bodies.

The black wires represents the beginning of there travels. When they started out on there journey they had to decide which paths to take which way to travel to make it to the sacred flower within the forest.

The feathers represents  the dangers that they will have to encounter and how they will have to“fly over them” to make it to the other side.

And finally  we have the sacred flowers on top of the mask ,
this represents where there destination has ended and that they have succeed in there task and they are free of any negative spirt.