This is the fifth mask Denver artist Annie Brenman-West has created over the years "because I so believe in hospice as an organization." A breast cancer survivor for nearly 7 years, Annie created this year's mask as a tribute to her uncle, Albert Brenman, and her mother, Ruth Zang Brenman, who both died of complications from Alzheimer's Disease. The white shirt buttons represent the healthy linear-thinking brain. The other buttons were tossed onto the mask and placed where they landed representing the disconnect that goes on in the brain with a dementia patient.