"As it happens, I love all styles of Asian art, but I am always particularly fascinated by the art from the earliest periods of Chinese history. This mask design is loosely based off of a recurring Shang bronze decoration known only as the "taotie mask". I like to think that the taotie was an actual, mythical beast that lived back in 3000 B.C. that we just haven't uncovered paleontological evidence of yet."
