Chess and Masquerade
Symbolic Transformation: Momentary Play or Performance: Masquerades provide a temporary escape from reality, allowing people to assume different roles and engage in playful or performative acts by symbolically transforming the wearer into a different persona or character.

Similarly, a game of chess is a temporary realm of play where the players immerse themselves in the strategic challenges and decisions presented by the game. During the course of the game, embody take on specific roles and identities. They step into the shoes of their chess pieces and embody their characteristics and strategic abilities. Each piece, such as the king, queen, rook, bishop, knight, and pawn, has its own unique role and moves on the chessboard.

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The Flash of the Spirit - Robert Anton Farris.
BLACK AFRICA (Masks, Sculpture Jewelry) - Laure Mayer
The Imagery of Chess Revisited - Larry List
Pwo or Mwana Pwo Mask - Chokwe tribe Angola (Wood, vegetable fiber, glass beads, metal)
Kple Kple Mask - Baule tribe Ivory Coast (wood, pigment)
Vuvi Mask - Baule tribe Gabon Coast (wood, pigment)
The Bhagavad Gita
Open The Door To Your Heart - J.O.B Orquestra (vinyl)
The MUSIC of COSMOS - the score of the PBS television series COSMOS by Carl Sagan (vinyl)
EAST FOREST x RAM DAS (vinyl)

E2-E4 - Manuel Göttsching (vinyl)
An improvised, one-track album that foresaw the coming of minimal techno as early as 1981 The piece itself (a single, continual track, 58:40 long) was recorded almost three years before its release at the end of a long tour, in one hour-long sitting with three humble intentions, none of them related to releasing music: practice, placating the post-tour comedown of no longer performing every night, and to give Göttsching something to listen to on an upcoming trip.

The story goes that, having played a solo concert for only himself, completely on the fly, on listening back, Göttsching discovered that he had accidentally made the perfect record. The music flowed in total balance and even once he had played it over and over he couldn’t pick out any errors – even the levels were all they should be without his trying. The album artwork also replicated a chess board that can actually be used.

BAUHAUS x Josef Hartwig
Hartwig's work was characterized by the fact that he tried to simplify the game of chess and bring it into a minimalist form. His design was based on the idea that each piece had a specific geometric shape and size to make its movements on the chessboard more intuitive and reduce the complexity of the game.

Hartwig's Bauhaus Chess is a perfect example of the Bauhaus philosophy of simplicity, functionality, and innovative aesthetics. The set is a timeless combination of art and design and represents a masterpiece of modern chess-playing art.