{"id":755,"date":"2014-01-31T16:11:09","date_gmt":"2014-01-31T13:11:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bobbasset.com\/news\/?p=755"},"modified":"2016-10-31T16:12:51","modified_gmt":"2016-10-31T13:12:51","slug":"bob-basset-creates-mask-inspired-by-current-events-in-ukraine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bobbasset.com\/news\/en\/2014\/01\/31\/bob-basset-creates-mask-inspired-by-current-events-in-ukraine\/","title":{"rendered":"Bob Basset Creates Mask Inspired by Current Events in Ukraine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"Text\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">For the first time ever, Bob Basset has designed an item inspired by a current sociopolitical situation. After protesters clashed with police at the Independence Square (Maidan Nezalezhnosti) in Kyiv and many reporters received beatings, the design studio\u2019s cofounder Serhii Petrov responded by crafting the leather \u201cMask of Maidan.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"Text\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">\u201cIt is only through these reporters\u2019 efforts that I was able to see the whole picture and make my own conclusions about the events in our country. Now I feel like I owe these people,\u201d says the artist.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"Text\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">The mask symbolizes a police club that has melted on impact, spreading over a journalist\u2019s face and rendering them blind and speechless. Bob Basset auctioned the mask at eBay, with a starting price of $1.00. 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