I created the painting on canvas using acrylic and oil pastels. It is meant to portray a living mask since I observe and experience that individuals nowadays are not authentic and instead present themselves as amazing, cheerful, cool, and brave to cover how they truly feel. The genuine self as a human being is fragile, quiet, and fearful but as a human being today, you must be perfect, which means you must be joyful, humorous, cool, confident, faultless, and fearless for others to want to be with you and like you. People live in a world made by humans who did not like people, which is evil so absolutely insane in many respects, but incredibly amazing, and where you can have anything your heart desires, but not because they want people to feel good and happy. Because the rule is that whatever has to be perfect to make money for your own sake, everybody and anything these days has to be so perfect, and where people's lives are all about working harder and more, it renders people more frustrated, angry, and evil, which creates more fear and distance between people.
Then what good is it, and people become more selfish, greedy, and demanding that everything in life be fantastic? As a result, they reject mediocrity as being fragile, shy, and scared since society as a whole is prone to not recognizing and tolerating it. It is not made to be human, but to be inhuman since everything must be flawless, which means people live a difficult existence because no one is perfect, therefore many people today wear a living mask to impress, receive attention, and be accepted. and thereby escape being humiliated, outcast and alone. They essentially expect that wearing a living mask would lead to sex. That happens when you are with people who are untrue, selfish, and evil who are not loving, but the selfish and evil would not happen with dear people because they are understanding, loving, and true, and if you experience these people, you will get what you see, and you don't need to wear a living mask with them. You are free to be yourself; they accept you with all of your feelings and impairments. It is OK for them to live as humans since they care about people and animals and want them to have a nice existence. regardless of whether they have to live a less-than-ideal existence, and it is for this reason that love must be cherished more highly.
