Striking Old Folk Art Root Head Carved Wood Decoy Danish Modern ceramics reading rather like an adobe

reading rather like an adobe house built into an anthropomorphic mountain with a protective arm extended out front carving out a private terrace

mostly British and French from what I've found

and it's directness now as a declaration of flatness

I think they're just so beautiful

and one more equidistant up from the bottom

Striking Old Folk Art Root Head Carved Wood Decoy Danish Modern ceramics reading rather like an adobeI don't much collect decoys, which represent a whole different world of expertise, but I found this such a striking and perfectly stark object that I could not resist it. I really love the long neck and dramatic angle of that root head terminating in white painted beak, and then the wonderful rich dark charcoal black of the carved body with rounded belly. On the underside is a metal plate which allows it to stay upright on the water (and it does