What would you call this? Folk art

A type of folk art really, right? Came from the home of a well respected artist. They liked Mexican and South Pacific Island native folk art a lot and had tons of funky things like this everywhere. Little altars or idols or what have you. Many were hodgepodges. Some native to those places surely and maybe some they created from bits and pieces. What would you call this if you had to? Looks like a Balinese or that general vicinity mini mask. The rest doesn’t look like it from within a couple thousand miles of there at least. Fun piece. I like it a lot but can’t imagine where I’d put it.

 

Did you attach the wrong picture or is there something wrong with my eyes? Balinese mask?

 

my daughter would call it Mixed Media

 

I'd say "well the artist apparently liked it."

 

I wouldn't consider it folk art.

Debora

 

The mask is afixed to the very front of the chair, under the pink flower. Took me awhile to find it and figure out what it was, too.

 

Ahaha. No fans here! Hopefully there’s at least one other than me out there!

 

I was confused by all that candy pink tule.
The partial miniature mask, which has no business being anywhere near a toilet roll doll(?), is part of a Sri Lankan souvenir. It is missing its side 'wings', which probably doesn't matter in this combo.
I would call it home craft something, certainly not folk art.

Enjoy!

 

Flush it.

Please.

 

Chili peppers in the hair! Southwestern US or Mexican?
Yeah, mixed media, funky piece. Someone was having fun!

 

mixed media

 

Wow.This even beats the gold spray painted baby statue!!

 

I would call it "found object art" rather than mixed media.

"A found object (a loan translation from the French objet trouvé), or found art,[1][2][3] is art created from undisguised, but often modified, items or products that are not normally considered materials from which art is made, often because they already have a non-art function."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Found_object#:~:text=A found object (a loan,have a non-art function.

 

Kinda reminds me of a time about 20 years ago when DH and I were on vacation. We stopped in Portsmouth, NH on a Sunday morning and walked around town looking in shop windows. I saw one odd window, then another, then a third and realized they all had Barbie and Ken dolls involved in various displays of bondage

 

OOK! That which has been seen cannot be unseen.

 

"Ook" isn't the word which sprang to my mind, but it's much more descriptive.