An anthropologist friend of mine shared this gif, and I was not sure where the masks where from because a lot of Latin American folk art share considerable similarities. I found the source and realized it is part of an Apple Brazil ad made with the iPhone 7’s portrait mode around Carnaval time. It got me thinking of the tradition of masks in Mexico, and how they usually depict demons or spirits. I’ve put masks on characters I’ve illustrated before, where death is involved.
Maxim Zaragoza 