Two Shapes, Three Forms, Opposing End Grains, More Sculpture than Puzzle theorem painted box 3 1/8 x 3 /16

3 1/8 x 3 /16 as mounted

I do believe that at least a few birds once made this old handmade birdhouse a home

which led me to learn that images of babies spilling and dropping things (usually in tears) seems to have been a bit of a thing in the early years of the 20th century

(There is a lot of information about the form and symbolism of various Bhadramanadala at the freelibrary

Two Shapes, Three Forms, Opposing End Grains, More Sculpture than Puzzle theorem painted box 3 1/8 x 3 /16A beautiful and also somewhat mysterious feeling thing, or group of things, which I just needed to bring home and be around for a bit. The wood is here is a hard wood, with a very smooth surface (if I were better at identifying woods I would!) Feels much more like a modernist sculpture than something made for a child, and with a tension about how the two positive forms relate to the cutouts in the rectangular block the end grain patterns tell us they