John Ammed Williams

Man, As Mask Maker John Ammed Williams

This work examines the Mask from its many contexts, placing an emphasis on the Mask's exclusiveness to that which is human. There is also a large section on the archetypal which has as its foundation and contribution a perspective of evolutionary psychology which is of a scientific approach to something persisting in cognition."For our own part, whatever is scientific in us is satisfied with the labeling of the Scarecrow as false and the license to treat it as so. However, a remaining part of us is compelled to treat the Scarecrow exactly as its initial fabrication intended." "The groups totem, represented by an animal or plant and further represented by a mask comes then to represent the supernatural as what is done to it becomes luck, fate, mana, curse, defilement or blessing.""There are injuries to the nervous system that result in the incapacity for the recognizing of old or the storing of new faces. Whatever underestimation of the face's importance is swiftly renounced as relationships cannot be cultured where one fails to identify the other.""There is not a linear relationship between primitive man's realization of the use of the Mask and the later triumph of a civilization. In the sense that a civilization is the binding of man, the Mask has an effectiveness of conducting the collective gaze and holding attentions. The mentality of the people dispersing from a Masquerade is better joined and as these people might reflect in the ensuing days, they are proclaimed a single fabric by which to do so. Should things be so manageable, social occurrences, within a group which shares a theatre, are not unrelated to this theatre and it is as though its language is socially elevated beyond anything that might come from a single person's lips in officiality."