The Weekly Photo Challenge this week is: Face.   

It always fascinates me to find unusual artwork in unlikely places. I also love folk art. There are some places that I have traveled that seem to be havens of folk art and street art.

Here, for example, is a mailbox I photographed in the old part of Havana, Cuba:

The San Antonio Museum of Modern Art in San Antonio, Texas, has many examples of faces in folk art. Below are just a few of them.

Dog faced stirrups (wood, late 19th century Bolivia) at San Antonio Museum of Modern Art:

Masks, San Antonio Museum of Modern Art:

Masks (explained in next picture)

Carnaval masks (?)

Molds for paper mache figures, ca. 1930 (artist unknown) – Celaya, Mexico – earthenware, San Antonio Museum of Modern Art:

Oso (Bear) (painted wood); Toro (Bull) (painted cement, iron) by Felipe Archuleta – (NM, USA). He was a carpenter who had a vision that the Lord told him to “carve wood” so he began a productive career as an artist, carving a menagerie of animals. At San Antonio Museum of Modern Art:

Oso (painted wood, rubber claws); Toro (painted cement, iron) – Felipe Archuleta – (NM, USA). He was a carpenter; had a vision that the Lord told him to “carve wood” so he began a productive career as an artist, carving a menagerie of animals.

Oso (painted wood, rubber claws); Toro (painted cement, iron) – Felipe Archuleta – (NM, USA). He was a carpenter; had a vision that the Lord told him to “carve wood” so he began a productive career as an artist, carving a menagerie of animals.

Balloon Man, 4th Street Market, Tucson, Arizona:

Frank Zappa, Detail from “Hippie Gypsy” mural – Tucson, AZ:

Finally, here’s my husband Dale, posing in a “frame” which we found in a plaza in Tucson, near downtown: