About the Artist

Traditional molding and shaping methods meet untraditional designs. That's Tormented Artifacts in a sentence for you. Or, as Dmitri Arbacauskas, Head Mad Scientist and main artist of the studio would put it, “Bringing the awesome,” which he's been doing for roughly five years now. The studio aims at taking mythical, fictional, abstract, and literary elements and breathing new life into them through one of the oldest arts there is- maskmaking. Each mask is hand-molded from leather, and hand-painted to capture the intracacies of each design.

The studio also creates mask art in other forms, with all sorts of media, including the the truly attention-grabbing gasmask art pieces. Each gasmask has been converted from tools of warfare to reflect more epic forms- gods, spirits, monsters, and demons from many different cultures. Each gasmask piece is also wholly unique- while the studio may do a variation on the original design, they will never make direct copies of an original piece.

In addition to all this, Dmitri also produces digital prints, custom request mask and gasmask designs, as well as various one-of-a-kind props and curiosities, which are available for sale through tormentedartifacts.com or at any event the studio is currently selling at.

Dmitri would also like to tell you that he is a charter member of the League of Extraordinary Bastards, a lay priest of the Faith of Bacon, the third gunman on the grassy knoll, and one of the few explorers to survive the legendary tombs of Eternal Night, but we figured it best to lock him back up in his cage until it's time to start making the next round of masks.

And yes. That is a cigarette in his hand. No, we don't know why either.