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Folk Art: Numero Uno....very cool stuff

The Museum of International Folk Art in Santa Fe, NM, states:

Folk Art is of, by, and for the people; all people inclusive of class, status, culture, community, ethnicity, gender, and religion. Folk Art is traditional; it reflects shared cultural aesthetics and social issues. (Unfortunately, due to Covid restrictions and lockdown in NM, this and all other museums were closed during our stay. A great disappointment, but necessary.)

In these very difficult and turbulent times when our country and the world are dealing with unprecedented challenges and catastrophes, the human spirit rises above all the heartache and finds ways to make the world a better place and ways to be our best selves. Many of these folk art pieces represent a window into our daily lives, our culture and our hearts, bringing much insight (sometimes hard to own), inspiration and also joy to those of us who stop to look, reflect and become enriched.

And as Jeff Goldblum said in Jurassic Park..."Life finds a way!"

Early Folk Art. Petroglyphs from Petroglyphs National Monument outside of Albuquerque.
Most of the drawings here are from the Ancestral Pueblo people and are around 500 years old.

George Floyd illustration, Magdalena, NM

Metal cutout on Magdalena, NM, ranch

Sandhill Cranes mural in Socorro, NM. Every fall, thousands of these birds migrate from the
northern Rockies, Canada, Alaska and Siberia to spend the winter along the Rio Grande Valley
at places like Bosque del Apache National Wildlife Refuge south of Socorro.
Typically they begin to arrive by Halloween and stay through February.

Aliens have landed in Socorro at the Shell station.

"The Sticker Bus" in Carlsbad, NM, in loving memory of the Sticker King, sells Chinese food.

Ledoux Street in the historic section of Taos, NM.

Huge cutouts of James Dean, Elizabeth Taylor, Rock Hudson (in convertible) and Second-empire Victorian mansion from the 1956 Western drama, "Giant", shot on location in and around the town of Marfa, TX. The movie is an epic portrayal of a powerful Texas ranching family challenged by changing times and the coming of big oil. A subplot concerns the racism of many Anglo European Americans in Texas during the mid twentieth century and the discriminatory social segregation enforced against Mexican Americans.