Exhibiting video images of industrial farming including the harsh treatment of farm animals at Congress and High streets in Portland, March 23, 2019. The exhibitors are holding video monitors. The masks, it was said, were worn so that viewers would focus on the monitor screens rather than the faces of the individuals holding them.

The masks are associated with social and political resistance after early 17th century British activist Guy Fawkes. Guy Fawkes Night, also known as Guy Fawkes Day, Bonfire Night and Firework Night, is an annual commemoration observed Nov. 5, primarily in the United Kingdom. Its history begins with the events of Nov. 5, 1605.