the masked ball.....

A masquerade ball (or bal masqué) is an event to which the participants would attend in costume wearing a mask.

Such gatherings, festivities of Carnival, were paralleled from the 15th century by increasingly elaborate allegorical Entries, pageants and triumphal processions celebrating marriages and other dynastic events of late medieval court life. Masquerade balls were extended into costumed public festivities in Italy during the 16th century Renaissance (Italian, maschera). They were generally elaborate dances held for members of the upper classes, and were particularly popular in Venice. They have been associated with the tradition of the Venetian Carnival. With the fall of the Venetian Republic at the end of the 18th century, the use and tradition of masks gradually began to decline, until they disappeared altogether.







we had the idea of taking away the models identity almost by havign them wear a mask through the shoot. we would have a pale coloured mask on the black models and a darker mask on the white models, to contrast against the skin colours, and back up the black and white link we are making through to the dominoes......