Fabulous, Strange Crocheted Lace Medallion with Figure guache on paper with beautiful jointed corners

with beautiful jointed corners

The sculpture measures 16 1/4" tall

and carved decoration on the sticks

with a little roughness to the wood and a few tiny cracks in the bowl and on the upper neck of the dark--no real matter

Fabulous, Strange Crocheted Lace Medallion with Figure guache on paper with beautiful jointed cornersThis is a fairly small piece just shy of 6 inches in. diameter but what a lot of is packed into those inches, and what a marvelously strange thing! I really love things that are both intensely of their medium and also entirely transcend it, which I feel is the case with this piece, applying a great command of the craft to articulating a very singular vision. The figure to me has a bit of the feel of Adam in the Garden of Eden, falling from grace, or