Infinite Images closes today, and along with it, the Masquerade - for now. This show was built by many, added to by many more, and now at its close I return to where the Masks of Luci started earlier this year and sit alone behind a screen filled with the words of many strangers and friends to make another mask in reaction to one. To revisit this process of “mask making” in the midst of what I’m creating now for the next chapter feels alien in nearly every way, but surprisingly warm to return to. There have been a number of epochs along the journey where I didn’t want to go back to, bad loops, but there is a binding magic in this process that exits tooling and showed me so much of what I'm now building. There’s a closeness made in this reaction. I know my mask: it’s a joy to make one for another. I have selected the reserved foundation Mask winner. It will be announced and awarded to them and revealed within the collection before the end of the year. Thank you for being part of its brief life in Toledo as we plan its next stop along its path.