The Prince's Trust is raising money by asking famous people to design and paint masks or boxes which will be sold at auction. The following is an excerpt from the Ma sks 96 brochure. We will be helping to develop the citizens of the future and enabling them to make a contribution to the country's future well-being. Although the great majority of those whom we assist will be unemployed, homeless or just hold themselves in low esteem, all will have the potential to achieve something positive for themselves and the community in which they will live.
Masks arrive with artists and celebrities .
David Reason, a founder member of the Centre for Psychoanalytic Studies in the Humanities at The University of Kent, opens this section with his thoughts on the analytical approach to interpreting mask designs. David was invited to provide individual analysis of a number of masks selected by him, in most cases without knowledge of the artist's name. His analysis, therefore, is centred on the individual mask designs rather than the personalities of those who painted them. Uri's Mask was one out of twenty that David Reason chose out of five hundred masks without knowing the identity of the celebrity. The face stages a cosmic allegory.