Viktor Wynd has spent the last few years  quietly building up a small collection of Ethnographic Art from The Congo & Indonesia with the help of a Congolese friend, who has made several dangerous, but fruitful, trips to the interior of the mysterious lost heart of the continent; lawless, stateless lands where people live as people have lived since time began, with lives governed by cycles and ritual dances for harvests, hunting, marriages and above all to appease and gain the help of the many members of the spirit world that govern the world. African masks are not about covering a humans face, they are their own faces, with their own habits and their own lives, by wearing it one becomes the servant of the spirit of the mask, moving and actings as the spirit dictates.  The most fearful masks are called upon when help can not be found elsewhere for serious problems like drought, illness & children, when such masks appear in a village the women & children must hide so as not to see what they are not supposed to see, the lucky ones who see by accident get away with a fine, the unlucky ones do not live to tell the tale.  But not all masks are foretellers of misery, there are masks of joy as well, that dance on stilts & chase naughty women who forget to put out the midday fire in dry season, that celebrate marriages & invoke the aid of the spirits for hunts & marriages.  Some of these masks, together with Fetishes and Ancestor Figures are now on display and for sale in the Wunderkabinett