Archival Note Card | Chinese Opera Masks - #25

Red face with a blue-and-white yin yang disc glowing between the eyes.

This archival note card from the chinese opera masks series, no. 25, titled "yin yang". It is paper. Chinese opera uses painted face patterns, known as lianpu, in which color and design generally signal a character's temperament, role or moral standing. Narrow card with a bright orange-red mask and black brows, a small round emblem at the forehead, and a long grey beard split into two streaks. A grey cap and a white collar with blue scrolls frame it. It is 4.25 inches long and 5.5 high.

Balance, in the middle of the forehead.