A ready-made deity, reminiscent of a chubby Buddha deity.
A plastic fixing found in 2017. Believed to be a component from a vacuum cleaner.
Plastic plinth fixings.
Friends or foes?
Invaders or messengers?
A UV damaged plastic fixing from an extendable washing line. Rotated to reveal a happy smiling Buddha deity.
Hotei, God of Contentment & Happiness.
Found during the repair of a freezer door.
Plastic freezer door handle.
A hosepipe wall bracket reimagined as Sobek.
Sobek was an ancient Egyptian deity, associated with the Nile and West African crocodile.
Captured (on iPhone) during a family holiday to Ibiza.
UV damaged PP (Polypropylene), bird droppings and rusted mild steel fixings.
In ancient Roman religion and myth, Janus is usually depicted as having two faces. He is the god of beginnings, gates, transitions, time, duality, doorways, passages, frames, and endings.
Ongoing
Pareidolia (par-i-DOH-lee-a) is a type of apophenia, which is a term used to describe seeing patterns in random data. This psychological phenomenon causes some people to see or hear, image or sound and deem it to be something significant.
Here is a selection of plastic product fixings which were found to have unintended faces or character, reminiscent of deities from around the world.
#plasticdeities #friendlyfixings continues as an irregular Instagram series.
