Aturta’apet amlesquat giinaqut – We Wear Many Masks Today

While carving this mask, Haakanson reflected on a friend who is currently undergoing cancer treatment. The act of creation became a meditation on the many masks people wear throughout their lives.

“We refine and polish those masks as we live our life, but which one is ‘real’?  Perhaps it is necessary to be able to toggle between them as life takes us in unpredictable directions.” -Sven Haakanson