SOLD Much Loved Sweetly Frowning Antique Jointed Man with Tenderly Added Legs forest green perhaps including smoked mackerel

perhaps including smoked mackerel

Someone long ago

and possibly a larger funnel end opening at the other

color pristine and unfaded

of indignation

SOLD Much Loved Sweetly Frowning Antique Jointed Man with Tenderly Added Legs forest green perhaps including smoked mackerelThis frowning fellow is one of a number of wonderful old carved articulated figures today, him straight out of an amazing West Coast collection of folk self taught outsider art. For me carved figures like are as close to animate as a handmade thing can be, and I always love the process of photographing them a sort of "getting to know you" experience, through which their very individual personalities (and souls, I would say!) reveal themselves,