Super Sculptural (and Surreal-esque) Old and Rusty Barbed Wire Ball grecian couple takes its inspiration from the

takes its inspiration from the poem by Alexander Pope reproduced below

best known for her wood engravings like this one

wonderfully folky

which dates to the 1880s

What I love most about this funny old carved souvenir plaque are the two tiny figures at lower left waving to the hiker protagonist from a distance

Super Sculptural (and Surreal-esque) Old and Rusty Barbed Wire Ball grecian couple takes its inspiration from theI guess barbed wire balls are a thing people made, and make but I don't believe I've ever actually come across one before, and to me this thing is rather transcendent as an object and a sculpture, making me think at least as much of Meret Oppenheim, say, as it does of a tumbleweed. No small feat to form such a dense and beautifully composed sphere as this while navigating the strength of the iron wire and its barbs either (!), yielding an object both