Essentialist and Also Highly Empathic Flat on its Belly Inuit Stone Carved Polar Bear antique fading photo frame a simple ball in cage

a simple ball in cage

and then three rows down the center of the toe with looping flourishes cast to either side

There are a number of pages primarily dedicated to text (executed in perfect penmanships)

as one can see from the back

Essentialist and Also Highly Empathic Flat on its Belly Inuit Stone Carved Polar Bear antique fading photo frame a simple ball in cageLove. This Inuit carved stone polar bear, lying flat on its belly, goes beyond representing the animal to, I think, represent a whole state of being! (Which also feels like the essence of hibernation, which I myself am especially disposed toward right now:)) I love too that its two front legs and head extending forward evince a hand laid flat, and also make me think of the incoming tide, creeping toward shore. Wonderfully matter of fact, and also