HALLOWEEN MASKS AND PORCH SCULPTURES

What a great Halloween decoration this would make! I picture it as a giant lawn sculpture made up of plastic bags of lawn clippings and leaves with a blanket tongue and paper eyes. Hmmmm....maybe it should it should be surrounded by kid furniture, as if it were situated in a living room like it is in the picture. Maybe a man's legs should stick out of its mouth. 

*Sigh!* The cheapest of all masks...the cereal box cutout type...and I see no current examples anywhere. Well, almost anywhere. John did those cardboard masks of Hanna and Barbera.

You don't think of Dada or Futurist architecture (above) when you think of Halloween, but Dada can be very theatrical and for me that earns it a place at the Halloween table. I could see a porch sculpture like this made of painted boxes, with Futurist ghosts coming out of the windows.

Good old Leg Avenue! This (above) is not only a good nurse costume, but it's a nice conversation starter on the subject of how hospital personnel should dress in the real world. We all know that men would recover faster if some of the nurses dressed like this.

I'll add that Leg Avenue still won't sell cardboard standups of their Halloween costume models. Anybody know why?

I might make something like this (above) for my front lawn. It depends how much the materials cost.

Above, a nice shot!

Boy, the mask (above) seems to expand out of the picture plane! 

This (above) is, believe it or not, an African mask. At first glance it looks like something that would have come out of America in the 1920s, but when you look close at the details you see lots of sculptural and painting conventions of African origin. Maybe the artist was influenced by old American cartoons he saw. Maybe he arrived at this caricature style independently.