50 Shades of Face Mask

Nowadays, more and more often, during the last weeks, many people have been asking me to paint the notorious face masks with my mandalas.

Given that I am not interested in doing that, since the mere idea makes me feel really sad, I want to clear up why I don't and will never do it.

Art is sacred ... and bringing home the bacon as well .... however ...

Among the businesses of the moment, the most popular one is in face masks. You can already find infinite variations of them: stylish, made precious with gems, branded, colored and decorated.

I have seen craftsmen and artists, coming from totally different industries, launching themselves into the production and sales of face masks, making a great display of inventiveness and imagination.

And I can perfectly understand that. I also had to do a lot of soulless jobs, just to bring home the famous bacon. However, in this kind of job, I never took advantage of either Art or Spirituality.

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Painting mandalas is a sacred practice for me. If I paint them for myself, mandalas are part of a spiritual path, made of self-awareness and personal growth.

When I paint mandalas for other people, I feel energetically connected in a very profound way, and I try, with all of my heart, to infuse energy, balance, harmony, love, gratitude, and dedication into the world. All qualities that I consider very pure. My artistic practice is intimately linked with nourishing the soul, through sight and touch.

In this regard, if you haven't seen them yet, there are two more articles in my blog on how everything we see affects us deeply. You can find them here

and here

Behind every little work of mine, if and when I decide to propose it to the world there are hours and hours of research, study, and artistic work. Even the objects I use, when not designed and produced by myself, are selected after hours and hours of research, not only online, but also in physical stores, markets, and fairs. This is because every object is never energy neutral. Everything has its own aura, a soul, a vibration. In fact, each object requires specific colors, geometries, and numerical sequences.

I also work on commission, it's true, and I don't deny that I like that pretty much. In fact, for me, interlacing the energetic peculiarities of someone else with mine and with those of the chosen objects opens horizons and possibilities that otherwise would not even exist. But nevertheless, I do not work for everyone: in fact, if I cannot perceive a positive synergy with the client, I politely refuse the order.

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So let's get to the point 

• Face mask and I do not get along well. I find it objectively ugly and everything I associate with them,  it is nothing but negative.
• I don't like not being able to see people's faces. I realized that instinctively I distrust those who wear their face masks in the street and tend to "avoid" them more than those who do not wear them.
• I think it hurts. Breathing carbon dioxide and not being able to smell is a mere sensory deprivation unnecessarily imposed and this also upsets my other senses.
• It conforms us more and more. We no longer even have our faces. Our identities become weaker and weaker.
• They are highly polluting: I can see tons of disposable masks abandoned everywhere. In an awful triumph of intrusive undifferentiated waste production.
• And last but not least, I inevitably associate the face mask with sickness. I can't avoid it. And I believe in the power of psycho-magic acts. I have always been doing a lot of small psycho-magic acts in order to change for the better and I am truly convinced that they are a very powerful tool. And won't it be that this psycho-magic act, irresponsibly imposed from those who rule us, does really serve to corrupt our souls and our freedom?
  

Conclusion

•  The reason why I will never paint mandalas on the face masks I think is now obvious. Let me just conclude with a sentence by Niki from Saint Phalle, creator of the splendid Tarot Garden of Capalbio, read on one of the many adorable tiles she created.

It gives me more satisfaction to create… 

something beautiful for others and for me...

Rather than to possess, and possess, and possess...

More and more… more and more …

Niki de Saint Phalle

Tarot Garden - Capalbio

This is it, as far as I'm concerned.

But what about you? What is your relationship with face masks?

What do they move deeply within you?

And how is this practice affecting your emotional distance from others?

That's all, Folks ... see you next time ...

P.s .: Don't forget to share your experience in the comments.

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