Someone is leaving baby faces around Denver, and people are creeped out

As creepy goes, nothing much beats killer clowns, drunk uncles and dolls with no eyes.

Except, maybe, the pink baby faces that have popped up around Denver.

Denver media are calling it guerilla art and haven’t named the artist responsible. The faces began appearing last summer, attached to curbs, medians, bridges and building walls.

Most of them are pink. Many have been taken down or broken over the months.

“We thought it was cool, so we left it up,” cafe owner Joseph Ramirez told Fox 31.

Ramirez said he and other local businessmen “were all texting each other, sending each other pictures like, ‘Who is this? Who did this?’

“It keeps the conversation going. I mean that’s good art isn’t it?” he said. “Right on. Keep doing it. Whoever you are.”​

Guerrilla art is alive and well far beyond Colorado.

Last week someone decorated a street corner fire call box in Washington, D.C., to look like a bomb, causing traffic delays while a bomb squad removed it.

And over the Easter weekend someone erected a Donald J. Trump tombstone in New York City’s Central Park.

It’s unclear what statement the artist in Denver is making. But another case of guerrilla-style street art last week in Hollywood made a very clear point.

In the name of the Black Lives Matter movement, guerrilla activists used epoxy to affix the names of black people killed by police over stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.

They adhered nameplates for Michael Brown, Eric Garner, Freddie Gray, Tamir Rice and others to blank stars on the sidewalk.

Then they posted a video online set to a Malcolm X speech.

“We recognize that there are people upset about numerous issues and lobbying for change, but we would hope that they would project their anger in more positive ways than to vandalize a California State landmark,” the president of the Hollywood Chamber of Commerce, caretaker of the walk, said in a statement.

A spokesman for the artists said they are “in the preproduction phases on something much more elaborate pertaining to Donald Trump.”

This story was originally published March 31, 2016 at 4:44 PM with the headline "Someone is leaving baby faces around Denver, and people are creeped out."