Kristers Gudlevskis has a lovely new mask, featuring traditional embroidery motifs (this one with interlocking squares generally represents crop fields, which represent fertility, which is lucky, but I’m not seeing any rhombus motifs, which represent vulvas, which are very lucky. Traditional embroidery is rad), a bear (also rad), the three stars of the Latvian coat of arms against a starry sky (I kind of wish the three stars were all gold like on the coat of arms and arranged a little differently, I think they’d pop more), a building in Riga Oldtown I feel like I should probably be able to recognize but can’t right now, and a lightbulb (rad).
I want to clean up the ribbon design along the temples, so the bear’s forest and the clouds over Riga fade into a deepening gradient of red towards the starry sky, crowns with the three stars. But given Gudlevskis’ last mask:
and Gudlevskis’ personal style, ‘surf pop singer-songwriter with seasonal depression’:
this is a shutout victory












