Featured Oddities

Kind of like the TV show..... or not. Show us the weird, wacky, fun, and downright odd things you have collected. No criteria other than it needs to be displayed in your home. Can be something you found, made, or were gifted. Need not be antique and it is OK if it has been shown here before. I have tons of this kind of stuff and will show some in subsequent posts. Let's see just how strange everyone really is

 

Love that Category-the most bizarre of the bizarre,like the mystery/what is this corner just added.

 

I have this penchant for heads....

Pottery .... School project?


Very old pottery folk art bank.


This little guy is something I made on a whim.


You all may remember this Devil......

 

This might be the oddest piece of art I own. Fired clay, unsigned.

 

The bank and the devil look Hispanic (Mexican ?) to me.

 

Bank may very well be. The devil is probably a student piece, initialed and dated 1993.

 

My oddities have been posted here before.
They are my "Loro Blonyo" caricatures. Loro Blonyo are traditional wedding figures from Central Java.

This couple was made in Yogyakarta. The pointy faces are inspired by Wayang puppets, but exaggerated. Yogya has a tradition of Wayang caricature art, often used for political or religious satire.
When I saw these two, I just had to have them.



Btw, the bridegroom has a keris tucked into the back of his waistband.

 

Remind me of Spy vs. Spy.... LOL!

 

Exactly!

 

A parliament of owls.

 

or one, that got run over !!

 

Here's one for the books: The Seven Deadly or Mortal Sins.
I'd like to initiate a contest, to allow y'all to attach these monk's Faces to the Names of those Sins...but am clueless about how to proceed. Perhaps some of you could direct my effort in that regard? Thanks!

 

Found this little weirdo at the thrift store this past Summer.


My sister made this from cat fur.... LOL!


Stone Billikin from Alaska


Another one of my sister's creations.....

 

I'd give Gluttony to the chubby one on the right.

 

In random order, they are:

luxuria (lust)
gula (gluttony)
avaritia (greed)
acedia (sloth)
ira (wrath)
invidia (envy)
superbia (pride)

 

I love that 1st pottery head, Brad . Yall might remember this one. He's grotesque but i love him. I call him Quasimodo. 5 inches tall,unsigned. probably student.

 

people get a kick out of these

 

I don't generally collect "weird" - do that well enough on my own. Maybe I should just upload a picture of me?