"Aztec Circle of Life Mask..."

...made for the second card in a custom 2:2 ATC trade

with Elina in Finland.

This mask depicts the Aztec view

of the three phases of life...

Youth and learning is in the center...

next,
Old age and wisdom is split to either side...

and the final outer split shell is

Death

and the life beyond.

"Man is least himself

when he talks in his own person.

Give him a mask,

and he will tell you the truth."
~Oscar Wilde